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It's also possible to just not read news altogether.
by ChrisGreenHeur 1y ago
It'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.
- chasd00 1y agoyears ago i wanted to make a site where you could log promises/predictions made in news media and then get a reminder to come back and check if it actually happened. This would be useful for all the doom and gloom headlines and predictions, especially economic ones.
- garciasn 1y agoI don't recommend this; instead, I recommend reading factual reporting, not 'analysis' which often comes with inherent political bent/bias.
- drcongo 1y agoWhy? I went news cold turkey about 6 years ago and I'm very happy with that decision.
- garciasn 1y agoWhy? Because I personally believe those who are not regularly informed are exacerbating the problem in why the electorate makes the decisions it does.
- bmitch2112 1y agoIf you don't read the newspapers, you are uniformed. If you do read them, you are misinformed.
- aaronbaugher 1y agoMy girlfriend says she doesn't trust the media, but she has to follow it to know what they're lying to us about. I've pointed out that the problem goes deeper than just whether they tell truth or lies. They don't just tell you what to think; they tell you what you're even supposed to be thinking about, and by omission what you shouldn't be thinking about. You can take the opposite position on every issue to the one they're pushing, but you're still letting them frame the window of what you are and aren't thinking and forming opinions about. The only way to take that control away from them is to cut the primary "news" sources out of your life entirely. I still hear about important events from people around me, and I can see what people are hyperventilating about at forums like this, which is more than enough to know what the media is hyping each day and why.
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- rdm_blackhole 1y agoTotally agreed. I stopped reading/watching/listening to the news about 2 years ago and I am blissfully unaware of what is going on in the world. I read hacker news every once in a while and even comment on some of the stories shown here but I select very strictly the topics I interact with. News organizations these days are all pushing an agenda. Whether it is pro [insert-topic-of-choice-here] or against [insert-topic-of-choice-here] and that irks me when they represent themselves as impartial and unbiased. If I want to read some propaganda, I know where to find it.
- bigbuppo 1y agoThe concept of unbiased news is a very recent invention. Before that all news was partisan.
- rdm_blackhole 1y agoI understand but in the past you probably did not have much of a choice. You read the newspaper your parents read or you listened to the same radio programs and watch the same TV channels so the bias was not necessarily apparent. Nowadays, we know exactly which outlets are leaning right or left, there is clearly no doubt about. Furthermore, I would argue that the news outlets squandered the last bit of credibility they had during the COVID period when they silenced views that were not deemed acceptable at the time. Finally a lot of news outlets are in some parts funded by the very same governments that they are supposed to be reporting on and keep in check. How can you do your job properly without any bias if the person you are about to write about/criticize is the one who signs your paycheck? The answer is that you don't.
- jjude 1y agoIf you don't read news, you are uninformed. If you read news, you are misinformed
- larrled 1y agoI”m reformed. I reread hn.
- travisgriggs 1y agoLOL. Guilty also. Regarding the original sentiment though, uninformed vs misinformed... Isn't this basically just good old signal processing? We either don't have enough signal, or we're saturated with noise. Economic feedback loops keep the news noise at a saturated level; we don't seem to be able to collectively agree or incentivize having a spot of information spectrum that has a decent discernible signal. The "free" press is no more free than it was 300 years ago. Then it was owned by despotic interests. Today, it is owned by need to make money.
- iwontberude 1y agoI only read the comments.