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"In February 2015, the news will be completely turned over to you. Access is first-come, first-served. Reserve your space now." How do I do that? It's March and all I can see is that text.
We were going to launch on the 28th, then we realized it was a Saturday. Whoops! So we're launching Monday. Just drop your email in the field and we'll send out an email tomorrow that you're in.
Do you remember any significant news one year ago today? That's why I ignore the general news. Long-form journalism on the other hand is what I read.
The news is a collection of stories. The big ones last a long time. If you want to sound like an informed world citizen, you should keep up on the big stories. It's not always easy to tell which stories will be big, but if you start following them early, it's easy to keep up with them.
I find some of the comments on here along the lines of 'I don't bother with the news because it doesn't immediately directly affect me' to be a little worrying. In an era where power is increasingly concentrated, centralized and opaque, we need responsible citizens to become more engaged. A prerequisite for this is that people take an active interest in what's going on in the world, even at the expense of their immed…
It explains why so many people were surprised by Snowden leaks even though we'd had similar reports for years before Snowden.
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"In February 2015, the news will be completely turned over to you. Access is first-come, first-served. Reserve your space now." How do I do that? It's March and all I can see is that text.
We were going to launch on the 28th, then we realized it was a Saturday. Whoops! So we're launching Monday. Just drop your email in the field and we'll send out an email tomorrow that you're in.
For anybody who reads French, I recommend http://www.courrierinternational.com/ . They select and translate articles from the world press on whatever are the most important issues. So you'll get Greek discussions of Syriza, Ukrainian and Russian comment on Donbass, etc. I've not found anything as good in English, but presumably it's out there somewhere. Otherwise, I find it useful to read through archives. The Guardi…
Do you remember any significant news one year ago today? That's why I ignore the general news. Long-form journalism on the other hand is what I read.
Yes, actually. MH 370 and Ukraine are two stories that began in March of last year. They're still relevant today. The news is a collection of stories. The big ones last a long time. If you want to sound like an informed world citizen, you should keep up on the big stories. It's not always easy to tell which stories will be big, but if you start following them early, it's easy to keep up with them.
People have forgotten MH370 already save for that one guy who came up with a wild conspiracy theory about MH370 landing in Kazakhstan.
I'm referring to general news that is talked about on a daily basis. Most of them are quickly forgotten.
http://www.trust.org/humanitarian/
Edit: curious that this got downvoted so rapidly when OP specifically mentions wanting to keep track of things like wars, which these sites all cover, while discarding flavor-of-the-week scandals, which again these sites avoid.
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"In February 2015, the news will be completely turned over to you. Access is first-come, first-served. Reserve your space now." How do I do that? It's March and all I can see is that text.
We were going to launch on the 28th, then we realized it was a Saturday. Whoops! So we're launching Monday. Just drop your email in the field and we'll send out an email tomorrow that you're in.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, actually. MH 370 and Ukraine are two stories that began in March of last year. They're still relevant today. The news is a collection of stories. The big ones last a long time. If you want to sound like an informed world citizen, you should keep up on the big stories. It's not always easy to tell which stories will be big, but if you start following them early, it's easy to keep up with them.
Ukraine is big today because it's still ongoing. People have forgotten MH370 already save for that one guy who came up with a wild conspiracy theory about MH370 landing in Kazakhstan. I'm referring to general news that is talked about on a daily basis. Most of them are quickly forgotten.
Ukraine is still ongoing, and obviously relevant. At what point should someone have started following the story? Does it have to maintain relevance for a minimum time period before it's worthy of following?