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Re: Stop Reading News (2013)

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Post by SZJX » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 8:10 AM UTC

SaintGhurka wrote: post #65

musha68k wrote: post #56

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Very cool. Thanks for sharing. FWIW sharing my primary global non-tech news source while we are at it: The Financial Times to me is all the important news without the fluff and very much worth the subscription price. Obviously there is a heavy focus on economic news (but not exclusively). I especially like the News Briefing which I can listen to conveniently with a "Hey Siri, play the FT News Briefing" while doing my…

I will second Financial Times as a great news source. It's also a great conversation starter if you subscribe ("why is your newspaper pink"?). Financial news, in general, tend to be my favorites because their biases don't tend to fall strongly along political lines, so you get fewer outrage-of-the-day stories, fewer what's-trending-on-twitter stories, and less politics in general - unless it's a really meaningful sto…

I always remember what Chomsky said about this: Business newspapers actually tend to be as true-to-reality and BS-free as possible, since they need to present information as accurately as possible for businesspeople to make the right decisions.

Re: Stop Reading News (2013)

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Post by sureaboutthis » Fri, Feb 08, 2019, 3:16 AM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #185

sureaboutthis wrote: post #88

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You have just stated that your source of news is comedians who were doing standup routines in nightclubs before their current TV gig and, in fact, still do comedy at night clubs (John Oliver for one). That's OK. A lot of people aren't aware of that. You can fix that.

Can you be specific about what you find problematic about that?

You don't have a problem receiving your news from a comedian versus a trained journalist?

Re: Stop Reading News (2013)

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Post by sureaboutthis » Fri, Feb 08, 2019, 3:18 AM UTC

Theodores wrote: post #193

sureaboutthis wrote: post #86

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HN is NOT a good filter though it's better than some. Judging by the person's statement, he is around 18 years old. For all I know, so are you. And so are 80% of anonymous "news" sources posted here. Anonymous postings on the internet, no matter where, are the worst thing that has happened to civilization since anonymous reports to the police of wrongdoings of a neighbor.

The comment you are referring to was made by someone considerably older than eighteen. > Is the new generation reading news? I highly doubt it. I think the new generation is caught up in quizzes that stir up emotions, and psychological tests that determine whether a giraffe is your spirit animal. When people write of the 'new generation' they tend to be a generation older and slightly out of touch with this 'new gene…

I am NOT defending television or radio as a news source. Far from it. I am very aware of its creation by PR and ad agencies. Not only did I work in the TV and radio business for 10 years but my nephew's fiance is a producer for a large TV station. I think she's great so I bite my tongue.