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Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#222Quit news. Quit politics. Don't have a "media diet." Make stuff and try to be around people who make stuff instead. To lay a single cobblestone path is to have more virtue than a million hot takes. Most causes are not thought-out enough to advocate, certainly not to scream about. The cobblestone path may outlive you. Politics and news, for all of their rage and sense of urgency, turn with the leaves. If you want to d…
I absolutely cannot believe that the top answer is "ignore the news and spend more time on Twitter". This is "Live, Laugh, Love" levels of pseudo-enlightenment. It is important to know what's happening in the world. It is important to know about decisions being made that affect the country you live in, and it is astonishingly ignorant to assume that politics and media are as bad where I live as you seem to think they…
> It is important to know what's happening in the world.
The dose makes the poison. If it's important, you'll hear about it. 99% of what you think of as important you will have forgotten in ten years. Look at old newspapers, old news magazines and it will give you a healthy dose of perspective.
I disagree with the Twitter part but the rest is great advice. You can fill your life with consuming (even if it feels important, like today's news) or you can fill your life with creating. The choice is yours.
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
I absolutely cannot believe that the top answer is "ignore the news and spend more time on Twitter". This is "Live, Laugh, Love" levels of pseudo-enlightenment. It is important to know what's happening in the world. It is important to know about decisions being made that affect the country you live in, and it is astonishingly ignorant to assume that politics and media are as bad where I live as you seem to think they…
Being informed and aware are valuable goals. I’m skeptical that the news industry has such significant deviation in outcomes globally, especially while having similar business models. I’m genuinely curious: is there a particular news source you’ve found that delivers on evaluating global events/decisions, selecting the most relevant/important ones, and explaining them in an educational/useful manner? The news is in t…
This isn't meant as an ad hominem attack but a general moan about moans about the media: not enough people distinguish between news reporting and opinion and analysis pieces.
RTE, The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Economist, The Financial Times have fairly good, fairly trustworthy reporting on a wide range of topics.
All have their strengths and weaknesses, to be sure, and the selection in an of itself shows my own biases and worldview to an extent.
I generally don't want to read through a newspaper and agree with everything in it, because then either the content has been dull to the point of tedium, or I've just created an echo chamber for myself where I learn nothing new and I'm not challenged enough about the downsides of whatever opinion I hold.
The Economist has some of the best reporting I've seen on Central Asia, for example, but I often disagree with the more libertarian editorial lines they take on many issues. I'm not nearly as left wing as the Guardian, but they do great work highlighting social injustices that I might otherwise ignore if I'm mainly reading business news.
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#224Quit news. Quit politics. Don't have a "media diet." Make stuff and try to be around people who make stuff instead. To lay a single cobblestone path is to have more virtue than a million hot takes. Most causes are not thought-out enough to advocate, certainly not to scream about. The cobblestone path may outlive you. Politics and news, for all of their rage and sense of urgency, turn with the leaves. If you want to d…
I absolutely cannot believe that the top answer is "ignore the news and spend more time on Twitter". This is "Live, Laugh, Love" levels of pseudo-enlightenment. It is important to know what's happening in the world. It is important to know about decisions being made that affect the country you live in, and it is astonishingly ignorant to assume that politics and media are as bad where I live as you seem to think they…
It's important to know what's happening in the world. It's not important to project what you know (or what you think you know) on blast via social media. I think that's where the unhealthy obsession people have with politics has been coming from lately.
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#225I read The Economist. Reasons and benefits I have seen so far are: 1. It's weekly. "World this week" section is more than enough to have a summary of what has happened throughout the globe and I can get this information in less than 5 minutes. If you are interested in being more up-to-date, you can also try Economist Espresso, which is daily. 2. It's not only about world news, but also has different sections such as…
While the Economist is often recommended, somehow I increasingly find articles posted from the Economist to be very shallow takes - as if a high school literature student was asked to turn in an essay on a given topic. I have rarely felt satisfied after reading any Economist article in last couple of years through I don't know if this represents a growing understanding of the world on my part as I grow older or standards in the Economist declining. I don't necessarily feel the same issue though for NYT or WaPo articles.
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
I absolutely cannot believe that the top answer is "ignore the news and spend more time on Twitter". This is "Live, Laugh, Love" levels of pseudo-enlightenment. It is important to know what's happening in the world. It is important to know about decisions being made that affect the country you live in, and it is astonishingly ignorant to assume that politics and media are as bad where I live as you seem to think they…
Yeah, I assumed the Twitter part was a joke. I can’t imagine a better way to feel horrible than Twitter. It’s definitely a platform for generating heat and very little light. As for the news, I can understand the notion of a diet. I try and catch at least some of the PBS Newshour each day. It’s the closest thing I’ve found to unsensational, non-editorialized, old-fashioned reporting. If I’m pressed for time, I catch…
I actually have to disagree. I think it really depends on who you follow. For a long time I didn't use twitter at all, but I've recently become active.
The hardware hacker community (think Hackaday types) on Twitter is pretty awesome and a lot of fun to follow.
Stuff like the below comes through all the time, and the discussions with people making things are great.
https://twitter.com/MrRobotBadge/status/1212038632246251520 https://twitter.com/johndmcmaster/status/1211923709910376449 https://twitter.com/mifune/status/1168604582748073986
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#227I have been compiling a list for quite some time now that I have been planning on doing some sort of scoring system of. There also many video sources that are great resources as well.
That said, I will tell you the main lesson I have learned in my obsession for better understanding of the big picture; don't follow outlets, follow journalists, no matter where they go. So I was reading Greenwald long before The Intercept, and if he published somewhere else or gave an interview or talk I'd watch it. The same for others like Seymour Hersh, Robert Fisk, Nassim Taleb, Chris Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Whitney Webb et al.
Find the ones that hit hard and keep their integrity. Disregard outlets. Use RSS/atom to avoid the crappy websites that often accompany the content.
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#228I still check out slashdot.org / reddit.com / flashback.org (Swedish)
I'm still on Slashdot as well. The discourse is less civil, but more straight. Still, I prefer the civility of HN :)
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#229Quit news. Quit politics. Don't have a "media diet." Make stuff and try to be around people who make stuff instead. To lay a single cobblestone path is to have more virtue than a million hot takes. Most causes are not thought-out enough to advocate, certainly not to scream about. The cobblestone path may outlive you. Politics and news, for all of their rage and sense of urgency, turn with the leaves. If you want to d…
This is nothing but will full ignorance and proud idiocy.
Its complete surrender to absolute power without any hint of necessity.
Politics matter, if you like it, or not. They lay the groundwork and build the frameworkfor anything in technology, art and your family.
Any attempt in these fields are completely depended on politics. They will all turn to ashes (literally) at the snap of a finger, if politics wants to. All attempts there are futile if you are apolitical.
Re: Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?
#230Quit news. Quit politics. Don't have a "media diet." Make stuff and try to be around people who make stuff instead. To lay a single cobblestone path is to have more virtue than a million hot takes. Most causes are not thought-out enough to advocate, certainly not to scream about. The cobblestone path may outlive you. Politics and news, for all of their rage and sense of urgency, turn with the leaves. If you want to d…
I absolutely cannot believe that the top answer is "ignore the news and spend more time on Twitter". This is "Live, Laugh, Love" levels of pseudo-enlightenment. It is important to know what's happening in the world. It is important to know about decisions being made that affect the country you live in, and it is astonishingly ignorant to assume that politics and media are as bad where I live as you seem to think they…
> It is important to know what's happening in the world
What made you think so?
Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree per sé. But I find it harder and harder to find reasons.