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Per Bettridge's law of headlines, obviously not. Aaron Swartz's blog post "I hate the news" ( http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews http://www.aaronsw.com/
by throwaway81523 4y ago
Per Bettridge's law of headlines, obviously not.
Aaron Swartz's blog post "I hate the news" ( http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews ) expanded on that pretty well. "... But if that’s true on a scale of minutes, why longer? Instead of watching hourly updates, why not read a daily paper? Instead of reading the back and forth of a daily, why not read a weekly review? Instead of a weekly review, why not read a monthly magazine? Instead of a monthly magazine, why not read an annual book?"
- janalsncm 4y agoThat question goes to what the value of news is. Is it to be an informed citizen? A weekly digest is more than enough then. There are other purposes though. The news is often the center of important conversations. You’re going to be out of the loop a lot if you don’t at least see daily headlines. Anything more than that? For the vast majority of news items it’s just not that important. For example, I got a push notification at 3:44 am that Kyrsten Sinema is leaving the Democratic Party. Did I need to know that in that moment? No. Did I need to know it at all? Questionable.
- throwaway81523 4y ago> The news is often the center of important conversations. You’re going to be out of the loop a lot if you don’t at least see daily headlines. The same thing is true of social media in general, popular TV shows, and all that. I think something more is needed. I would say it's important to know about things like Simema doing independent (hearing about it through say a weekly digest rather than omg a push notification), but mostly to stay cognizant of the kind of world that we currently live in. Being unaware leads to too much trust in institutions, that sort of thing.