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One thing that really helped me was to start viewing my news media in black and white. Without the colored dressing, a lot of (especially partisan political) ar
by failrate 5mo ago
One thing that really helped me was to start viewing my news media in black and white.
Without the colored dressing, a lot of (especially partisan political) articles have much less emotional impact on me.
Note: this worked particularly well for written media and less well for vocal media
- bigmadshoe 5mo agoFor US-centric news, I really like the text only https://text.npr.org/1001 https://text.npr.org/1001
- SpicyLemonZest 5mo agoI think I like charts too much for text only, but this really does capture a common problem I have. A lot of articles seem to come with images that are almost designed to get the reader worked up. I think, at least in most cases, as a side effect, of selecting for reach and clickthrough rate? But that doesn't really help me and I'm not sure how to eliminate the "look how much of a jerk this guy is!" photos without also losing the charts.
- isodude 5mo agohttps://www.svt.se/text-tv/100 https://www.svt.se/text-tv/100 The same as it was on tv when I grew up.
- dartharva 5mo agoIt's still mostly bad news? Also I don't see that big of a difference than the default NPR website articles, all they add is a bit of text formatting and an image.
- bigmadshoe 5mo agoThey aren’t able to control whether the important facts people want to be updated on are positive or negative. But I find it less addictive to read the news with minimal colors and no images.