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As with most things, "don't do X" is catchier than "do X better". Ways I like are (1) get from the headlines to Wikipedia as fast as possible. You can even star
by thenoblesunfish 3y ago
As with most things, "don't do X" is catchier than "do X better". Ways I like are (1) get from the headlines to Wikipedia as fast as possible. You can even start from the Wikipedia front page. (2) Read old school blogs with deep information on narrow topics (3) read in another language you're trying to learn.
- p-e-w 3y ago> get from the headlines to Wikipedia as fast as possible This is the way. I treat news headlines as a list of recommendations for which Wikipedia articles to read today. I have even built my own archive of Wikipedia's "Current Events" pages[1] to make this process as seamless as possible, and skip all the non-news garbage that news websites tend to be infested with. [1] https://pastevents.org/ https://pastevents.org/
- tmikaeld 3y agoThat's awesome! I'll be consuming this from now on, combined with newsminimalist.com . Should cover 99% of what I want to know. Can you add RSS feed to pastevents.org? That would be even better!
- p-e-w 3y agoI've thought about adding RSS for a while, but have not yet settled on how this would interact with the filtering and sorting functions. I believe a feed would be especially useful if it could be constrained to events matching specific keywords.
- tmikaeld 3y agoAgreed, maybe something like https://pastevents.org/rss/keyword https://pastevents.org/rss/keyword ?
- quickthrower2 3y ago(4) read from wildy different sources. During wars and elections, many news outlets are going to pick a side. So very few can be trusted as a sole source. You might get the facts, but which facts, and how are they worded.