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Did you read the whole article? "With the time people waste reading a newspaper every day, they could have read an entire book about most subjects covered and
by diego 14y ago
Did you read the whole article?
"With the time people waste reading a newspaper every day, they could have read an entire book about most subjects covered and thereby learned about it with far more detail and far more impact than the daily doses they get dribbled out by the paper. But people, of course, wouldn’t read a book about most subjects covered in the paper, because most of them are simply irrelevant."
- enraged_camel 14y agoEvents typically don't become book material until several years after they occur. You might say that by the time you read about an event in a book, it is already history. News coverage is more immediate. And while 95% of all news is useless bullshit, there is still stuff in there that is useful and relevant for shaping one's understanding of the current times.