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Is it possible that this has seen an uptick after 2013, when the "Domestic Dissemination Ban" was removed from Smith-Mundt, because, well, "the internet, and st

Is it possible that this has seen an uptick after 2013, when the "Domestic Dissemination Ban" was removed from Smith-Mundt, because, well, "the internet, and stuff"? over the last 10 years, i've found myself reading and watching news next to 0 minutes a day. I listen to a news analysis podcast (mostly for the jokes), and i see excerpts on places like reddit, my personal fediverse server (with 1500 journalists followed), and HN. I also currently am possibly hallucinating from food poisoning. The wikipedia article for smith mundt doesn't decry in large letters that one of the more important rules it set out doesn't apply anymore. in fact it says "the smith-mundt act has been used to show that Voice of America doesn't have to reply to FOIA transcript requests"

glonq 4y ago
Congrats on 10 years. I stopped routinely reading/watching the news in 2016, and have been much happier because of it. I still remain reasonably informed and aware, but on my own terms. Is there an accurate, honest, reliable news source for "tell me what happened but don't tell me how to think or feel or react" anymore?
- genewitch 4y ago
  The only issue with "tell me what happened and that's it" is what if it's not in your wheelhouse? For example, do I personally care about a children's tylenol shortage? Is there an issue with precursors, demand, shipping, bottling? Just reading the headline and the "data and statistics" wouldn't really make me care one way or the other, and again, perhaps that's fine. Perhaps it's useful to just know there's a shortage or whatever the news du jour is. I find reddit and fediverse good for getting the extremely polarized opinions out in the open on topics i have very little idea about. Don't get me wrong, i realize that i'm getting a lot of bad inputs, here. But the flip side is i am not seeing advertisements constantly, and since i know where the extreme edges are i can actually have a conversation where someone more knowledgeable than me can correct my understanding - or attempt to. RE: 10 years, i actually got rid of televisions in my house shortly after "mission accomplished" back in 2002 or 2003. I told myself that recording and going through news about the 9/11 attacks wasn't doing me any favors. So i'm technically 20 years without a "TV" connected to OTA or any other service. I mostly watch youtube reviews and my personal copies of TV shows and whatnot. I tried around the start of the pandemic to get an OTA setup on my projector. I ended up just using it to record me.tv or whatever it's called, the "oldies" station. Wasn't worth the disk i was using for it. Anything "national" or international, i got a friend that will set up an RTMP stream off their cable box and send me a link. This has worked fine for 5 years.

glonq 4y ago

Congrats on 10 years. I stopped routinely reading/watching the news in 2016, and have been much happier because of it. I still remain reasonably informed and aware, but on my own terms. Is there an accurate, honest, reliable news source for "tell me what happened but don't tell me how to think or feel or react" anymore?

genewitch 4y ago
The only issue with "tell me what happened and that's it" is what if it's not in your wheelhouse? For example, do I personally care about a children's tylenol shortage? Is there an issue with precursors, demand, shipping, bottling? Just reading the headline and the "data and statistics" wouldn't really make me care one way or the other, and again, perhaps that's fine. Perhaps it's useful to just know there's a shortage or whatever the news du jour is. I find reddit and fediverse good for getting the extremely polarized opinions out in the open on topics i have very little idea about. Don't get me wrong, i realize that i'm getting a lot of bad inputs, here. But the flip side is i am not seeing advertisements constantly, and since i know where the extreme edges are i can actually have a conversation where someone more knowledgeable than me can correct my understanding - or attempt to. RE: 10 years, i actually got rid of televisions in my house shortly after "mission accomplished" back in 2002 or 2003. I told myself that recording and going through news about the 9/11 attacks wasn't doing me any favors. So i'm technically 20 years without a "TV" connected to OTA or any other service. I mostly watch youtube reviews and my personal copies of TV shows and whatnot. I tried around the start of the pandemic to get an OTA setup on my projector. I ended up just using it to record me.tv or whatever it's called, the "oldies" station. Wasn't worth the disk i was using for it. Anything "national" or international, i got a friend that will set up an RTMP stream off their cable box and send me a link. This has worked fine for 5 years.