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Yes. Without a doubt. Newspapers were supposed to be curators of valuable content, but most went down the road of click-bait for advertising. I've also tried pa
by sergiopreira 4y ago
Yes. Without a doubt. Newspapers were supposed to be curators of valuable content, but most went down the road of click-bait for advertising. I've also tried paid solutions, but most fail with the exception of the economist. Its the only one I pay for today....
- RGamma 4y agoNot just news papers. The entire aggegrate output of "media industry" with it's various forms of text, audio, video, games is a deluge ("X days of video uploaded every minute", a dozen or more games come out on Steam every day and that's just Steam). Take not just momentary but also the historical output and you're looking at an amount that is by many orders of magnitude overwhelming the comprehension capacity of any single observer, arguably even for the metadata. Is anybody even trying to keep track? Most of this can't be made to last...
- Swizec 4y agoI also pay for the Economist. It was key to keeping my sanity during the news cycle in 2020. But somehow what I actually read is Hacker News and has been for 10 years. The only thing that keeps staying.
- INeedMoreRam 4y agoSo you don’t regularly read The Economist? Why don’t you just cancel your subscription already?
- speg 4y agoRemember when there was a project that curated the best articles from hacker news and published them in a PDF monthly? Someone should bring that back!
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