News is bad for you (2013)

Worked in news media for 9 months and can unequivocally say it made me pessimistic and completely depressed. Staring at 6 newschannels for 8 hours a day can be tough.

Re: News is bad for you (2013)

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Post by nmiller » Sat, Nov 07, 2015, 8:16 PM UTC

on the time issue: https://medium.com/@thusmedia/netflix-for-news-84b462a2dd50

Re: News is bad for you (2013)

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Post by danielam » Sat, Nov 07, 2015, 8:19 PM UTC

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” --Mark Twain

Re: News is bad for you (2013)

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Post by guelo » Sat, Nov 07, 2015, 8:20 PM UTC

It's our duty as citizens of democracies to stay informed. If we don't stay informed then it is only the special interests that stand to make money that influence policies. Also it is important to stay on top of your industry trends to make sure you don't miss some opportunity. I agree that most crime and tragedy stories are useless information.

Re: News is bad for you (2013)

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Post by Yhippa » Sat, Nov 07, 2015, 8:21 PM UTC

Instead of using going to Facebook first when I'm bored these days I'll check out the top stories from r/all on reddit, check out Google News, or Hacker News top stories. I used to take a lot of pride in being current with world news or my industry news. This all started about 5-6 years ago when news aggregators started getting better. The first one for me was http://newsmap.jp/.

In reality I think it made me feel worse and sadly I'm just within the past few months realizing this. I feel like there's so much content masquerading as "news" and it's hard for me to tell what is legitimately good content until I'm a little bit through it. I am leaning to really cutting back but I need to rely on a few news sources from now on.

Re: News is bad for you (2013)

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Post by sparkzilla » Sat, Nov 07, 2015, 8:21 PM UTC

ericzawo wrote: post #5

Worked in news media for 9 months and can unequivocally say it made me pessimistic and completely depressed. Staring at 6 newschannels for 8 hours a day can be tough.

It gets better in the tenth month