Things You Notice When You Quit the News
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Things You Notice When You Quit the News
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#2I don't have much to add other than I agree with all these points and suggest more Americans ignore the so called "news" we're being pushed with into hysteria. Also your Facebook feed is probably a huge drain, I'd recommend unfollowing everyone or at least aggressively curating down to people and things you truly care about.
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#3Everything in balance.
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#5I don't have much to add other than I agree with all these points and suggest more Americans ignore the so called "news" we're being pushed with into hysteria. Also your Facebook feed is probably a huge drain, I'd recommend unfollowing everyone or at least aggressively curating down to people and things you truly care about.
And be alone with my actual identity and have to deal with existential angst? I'd rather get upset about an issue I read to give my life some meaning /s
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#6Must-(re)read: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews - it was 10 years ago.
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#76) Watching "the news" makes you mad because it just seems like sensationalized bullshit when it's on in the background. You wonder... "How do people watch this dribble?" or "How could anyone believe this?" If your "news" ever says that something is good or bad... it's just an opinion piece.
It's very hard to find impartial news outlets that aren't just pandering to confirmation bias, or that don't have an agenda. Sucks about all the competition for attention on the internet... people realized that they can catch more bugs with honey, and so they just tell their audiences what they want to hear.
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#8The local news seems to always be about murders and violence. Why is it beneficial to learn about every instance of "humans behaving badly"?
(Celebrities, ok, maybe, but random people?)
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#9Hacker News, I could never quit you.
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#10I read the headlines of Google news. That way when someone invariably asks me if I heard about this or that I can say "yeah I read that in the headlines". Otherwise people sometimes tell you what they read which is worse than actually reading the article.