If information was enough we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs.
I'm still hunting for that one weird tip.
Things You Notice When You Quit the News
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#42TL;DR: 1) You feel better 2) You were never actually accomplishing anything by watching the news 3) Most current-events-related conversations are just people talking out of their asses 4) There are much better ways to “be informed” 5) “Being concerned” makes us feel like we’re doing something when we’re not My own personal experience: I quit watching the news the day after the 2016 Election ended. I felt so ill the n…
I would agree, but some news affect your life deeply. Personally, I'm reading news daily to answer the question "should I complete that Canada residency application today, or can I wait a few weeks?"
You don't just sign up to be a resident in another country. You have to be invited. I know its fun to say "Screw this! I'm moving to Canada", but it doesn't work like that.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
He mentions: "instead of reading the back and forth of a daily, why not read a weekly review? Instead of a weekly review, why not read a monthly magazine? Instead of a monthly magazine, why not read an annual book?" Can anyone recommend such a weekly or monthly review? One that isn't particularly ideological. It would save so much time.
The Economist is a good weekly review; the stories are very short but the information density is high.
I'd also echo that The Economist is well worth a subscription. It also has the interesting quirk that doesn't use bylines and all articles are published anonymously.
Re: Things You Notice When You Quit the News
#44There was a period of time, starting upon the day of, and then continuing for some years after the 9/11 attacks, where " The News " was something you couldn't help but be engrossed by. Growing up during an era of Johnny Carson, in a house with no cable, and attending high school in the 90's, " The News " was something very different prior to 9/11. 24 hour cable news started providing information on fast moving events…
I think this started before 9/11. OJ's white Bronco was before 9/11.
It was the first Gulf War where 24 hr news hype cycle really took off. Wolf Blitzer doing his sports announcer thing over footage of "smart bombs".
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#45I found out that having no news at all is not so good, because you don't want friends and colleagues to believe you're living in a cave. But you only need the two three important headlines in the week, and I get these from Wikipedia home page. Also, if you are concerned by a topic, say war in Syria, just get your meat from Wikipedia article, it's not perfect but it beats all other info sources by very far.
I never heard of anyone using wiki for for current events.
How do you start.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look at recent events if you need further evidence of this. The term "fake news" has exploded in just under a month in the mainstream media. If my memory serves me, tabloids like The Enquirer have been sitting on news stands for as long as I can remember. So how did this fervor over "fake news" coalesce so quickly and uniformly? Mainstream outlets move in lockstep with each other and these are the final, desperate de…
The whole FUD campaign regarding "Fake News" is comically hypocritical in my opinion. Glenn Greenwald has an excellent article calling them out for it: https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/a-clinton-fan-manufactur... Edit: Ironically, that post was doing great until it got flagged. Edit 2: It has been unflagged Edit 3: Flagged again.
Great article. Although I wonder why it fails to criticize Trump's side...
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#475. You are being manipulated by mainstream news. You can learn Arabic or Russian and go to Ukraine or Syria or Iraq and inform yourself talking to the people there, both sides of the story, or you can let the TV media tell you what is happening. I have done it(I don't know much Arabic and a little Russian but I have traveled there) and it is quite an astonishment that what TV shows you has nothing to do with reality.…
Look at recent events if you need further evidence of this. The term "fake news" has exploded in just under a month in the mainstream media. If my memory serves me, tabloids like The Enquirer have been sitting on news stands for as long as I can remember. So how did this fervor over "fake news" coalesce so quickly and uniformly? Mainstream outlets move in lockstep with each other and these are the final, desperate de…
>Mainstream outlets move in lockstep with each other and these are the final, desperate death throes of an outdated and superfluous institution.
So far, non-mainstream outlets have proven a whole lot worse. Call me a small-c conservative, but I'm going to keep supporting civil society over the conspiracy theorists.
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#48Must-(re)read: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews - it was 10 years ago.
He mentions: "instead of reading the back and forth of a daily, why not read a weekly review? Instead of a weekly review, why not read a monthly magazine? Instead of a monthly magazine, why not read an annual book?" Can anyone recommend such a weekly or monthly review? One that isn't particularly ideological. It would save so much time.
The week
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http://theweek.com
Re: Things You Notice When You Quit the News
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would agree, but some news affect your life deeply. Personally, I'm reading news daily to answer the question "should I complete that Canada residency application today, or can I wait a few weeks?"
You don't just sign up to be a resident in another country. You have to be invited. I know its fun to say "Screw this! I'm moving to Canada", but it doesn't work like that.
Not to ruin my own chances, but New Zealand is apparently quite welcoming to a high-skilled professional.
I mean, yes, you then have to live in a boringly peaceful country on the other side of the world from anything exciting. But right now, that means you're on the other side of the world from anything "exciting".
Re: Things You Notice When You Quit the News
#50I found out that having no news at all is not so good, because you don't want friends and colleagues to believe you're living in a cave. But you only need the two three important headlines in the week, and I get these from Wikipedia home page. Also, if you are concerned by a topic, say war in Syria, just get your meat from Wikipedia article, it's not perfect but it beats all other info sources by very far.
I never heard of anyone using wiki for for current events. How do you start.
Here's the front page for English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page