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Pro tip from a lifelong life enthusiast: if its breaking news, wait one week - first-week speculation isn’t just unproductive, it’s often counterproductive. F
by blitzar 1y ago
Pro tip from a lifelong life enthusiast: if its breaking news, wait one week - first-week speculation isn’t just unproductive, it’s often counterproductive.
Flick through last weeks newspaper if you need reassurance.
- jen729w 1y agoJust read The Economist. Only comes out weekly!
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- Litost 1y agoSimilarly The Guardian has a weekly publication - https://support.theguardian.com/uk/subscribe/weekly https://support.theguardian.com/uk/subscribe/weekly Unfortunately it doesn't appear to have a digital option?
- treetalker 1y agoI can access a digital Guardian Weekly through my public library's online magazines (Hoopla or Libby or some such).
- Litost 1y agoThanks, that's good to know. And I've just seen that you CAN get The Guardian Weekly digital subscription here, free if you've got a print subscription? Though obviously I'm wondering why the Guardian don't advertise this? https://theguardianweekly.pressreader.com/ https://theguardianweekly.pressreader.com/
- wkat4242 1y agoYeah that's weird. The Guardian has a global catchment area. It's no longer a Manchester or UK paper. A lot of foreign readers wouldn't subscribe to a print sub because it's not worth the hassle. I'd also feel bad getting some dead trees filled with chemicals and flown across the pond then someone driving it out to me, all that environmental impact when I could just download it.
- xdennis 1y agoI used to do that too, but the Rittenhouse incident was the final straw for me. I remember reading in the magazine that he "shot into the crowd", but by that point I had already watched the video analysis on the New York Times's YouTube channel which showed that he only shot at people who attacked him. That was what the jury agreed with as well. In the end, I think the most accurate place to get your news from is a history book.
- yohannparis 1y agoYep, I subscribe to the Le Monde weekly, 10 printed pages newspaper delivered home. Enough to know what's what and done.
- rdm_blackhole 1y agoConsidering the amount of cash and/or subsidies that Le Monde has received in the last 30 years from the French government, you may as well read the Pravda. Nobody bites the hand that feeds them.
- orwin 1y agoI don't think it received anything? Besides a VAT of 3%? But it is the voice of it's 3 owners.
- rdm_blackhole 1y agoYou can read all about it here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aides_%C3%A0_la_presse_en_France https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aides_%C3%A0_la_presse_en_Fran... if you want and if you understand French. Basically the French new outlets are some of the most subsidized on the planet. Just to give you some quick figures, in 2010, the French government gave news outlets 1.8B euros in subsidies and in 2012 another 1.2B euros. There is no mention of the subsidies in the years after that but there is no reason to think that these would have shrunk significantly. That's not even mentioning the special tax breaks that journalists get and the fact that most news outlets are staffed by union members. Knowing that most unions are leaning left politically, it is fair to say that the coverage of the news by these outlets will be tainted by their political ideology. It's just human nature. All of this to say that in light of all this, it is best to treat any French news outlet as basically an arm of the government that will never go against the interests of the their real owners, the politicians, unions and the billionaires. Le Monde is but one of these outlets but nevertheless they take the money just like the other ones.
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- andrepd 1y agoReading one source of news only, especially one with such marked bias, is bound to leave you with a limited worldview. Consult instead a variety of sources.
- ChrisGreenHeur 1y agoIt's also possible to just not read news altogether.
- VladVladikoff 1y agoBest decision I’ve ever made. It’s honestly so exhausting reading news regularly.
- psyclobe 1y agoAmen.
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- alwa 1y agoLike so many addictive habits, while you’re in it day to day, it feels so… important… and when you’re out… it doesn’t even make sense that complete truth could be fully knowable in the moment. Most consequential decisions are made, or built up to, over a long time. Sure, somebody has to call moment-to-moment balls and strikes, but if that’s not literally you, your weight in the world might be better applied in slower, quieter, subtler places. Am I morbidly curious about a plane crash? How could I not be? But the NTSB didn’t earn the credibility they have by parachuting in day-of and shooting from the hip. If anything, their processes provide discipline against first impressions blinding them to true causes. For those who haven’t encountered Admiral Cloudberg, this is a good opportunity: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/ https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/
- lupusreal 1y agoGood way to cure a news addiction: Read news from years ago, see how much of it was actually accurate and meaningful in retrospect.
- gedy 1y agoYes, I remember scrolling through an archive of Newsweek covers over the years, and realizing how much of it was just pure hype or inconsequential.
- coredog64 1y agoI especially liked the story last week highlighting that wet streets cause rain.
- nindalf 1y agoPro tip from an absolute rando: don’t bother with any source of breaking news. Read a weekly paper that summarises the important stuff. If something is truly pressing, you’ll hear about it from friends or coworkers.
- roywiggins 1y agoUnfortunately for everyone's brains, this turned out to basically not be true with COVID- only real news fans (or people with expertise in the relevant science, but there are way less of those) were remotely aware that offices probably weren't going to be closed for only two weeks[0]. If you followed the news closely you stocked up on toilet paper when there were runs on it in Hong Kong, before there were runs on it where you were, etc. But if you only got news from the office water-cooler you'd have been none the wiser. This is one of those exceptions that prove the rule though, I think. [0] I had this conversation with people multiple times so it must have been common
- lxgr 1y agoIf nobody followed the news or social media, there wouldn’t have been runs on toilet paper to begin with, as there never was a shortage to begin with and it was all just mass hysteria.
- roywiggins 1y agoIt was never clear to me, but at least part of it was supposedly due to everyone pooping at home using consumer TP instead of at the office, using commercially packaged TP (two-ply, giant rolls for big dispensers). And that sudden shift started to empty shelves. If people had stocked up over a period of time, the empty-shelves situation that produced the fear probably wouldn't have happened. Of course in practice there really was plenty of it to go around, dollar stores seemed to be the most flexible at navigating the supply chain derangement and if you didn't mind buying it by the roll, it was never really hard to find. Also- you don't need to follow the news for there to be a panic, empty shelves will do that all on their own. Everyone deciding to stock up a little on everything was enough to deplete shelves, people walking in after saw empty shelves and stocked up more, etc. I don't think most people were following the "omg supply chain" news, they just saw depleted shelves.
- bgirard 1y agoI agree with that wholeheartedly. The problem is that people want to discuss today's news now. Explaining them this and not being able to engage in the conversation isn't a great way to connect with people unfortunately.
- atonse 1y agoI suppose one way (now that you've brought this up, which is totally valid), is to openly state that this is what we know right now, and that often changes in a week. And that could itself be a tangent in the conversation, alternate theories. (Or might be a frustrating one if nobody is receptive)
- travisgriggs 1y agoThere's always the weather... how's yours? Mine is warm, a bit of cloudy, and a bit of smoke in the air from PNW fires.
- blitzar 1y agoMine has been crazy - sunny, then rained, now overcast and all while being unseasonably humid. I should have mowed the lawn while it was sunny earlier but missed the window to get it done.
- crazygringo 1y agoI don't know if that's meant to be a joke or serious, but I would disagree. Most daily news is quite factual, assuming a reputable source. It doesn't require detective work the way plane crashes do. And when it is incorrect or misleading, a week usually won't make a difference. It takes months or years or decades for the truth to come out, often in a book by a journalist or historian who frames it as a "tell-all", or a Pulitzer Prize-nominated series of newspapers articles, etc.
- layer8 1y agoIs there an online version of “last week’s newspaper”? More specifically, that primarily contains reporting about somewhat “matured” topics, as opposed to still developing news.
- jrmg 1y agoIt’s not online, but Delayed Gratification is a quarterly news magazine that reports on the news of the _previous_ quarter with an up-to-date perspective. It’s British but covers world news. https://www.slow-journalism.com/ https://www.slow-journalism.com/