We should redesign the news. What would it ideally be like?
It would reward reporters who are honest and courageous. The incentives right now punish objectivity and reward conformity.
Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
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Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#22What are we supposed to read then? Politics is the current day s soap opera
Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am very interested in policy, but I do not watch the news. Why? Because it contains no actionable information that changes my decisions: I'm still going to vote in every election, I'm still going to research the candidates when the time comes, I'm still going to volunteer at the polls... The news is trivia, generally speaking. When I have a more active life in politics I'll take the Chomskian approach to news, but…
What is the Chomskian approach to news?
Instead of drinking the koolaid, you complain that companies are manufacturing koolaid, despite the fact that you are currently using an I.V. drip of the stuff. Turn the dial on your I.V. up to 11, while you lean back and realize that you are glad that you’re not thinking about linguistics.
Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#24We should redesign the news. What would it ideally be like?
It would reward reporters who are honest and courageous. The incentives right now punish objectivity and reward conformity.
I won’t call some of these reporters journalists, they are more like activists. They aren’t interested in keeping society informed, they just want to push their agenda.
Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#25We should redesign the news. What would it ideally be like?
If the news could:
1. Stop publishing minority opinions as if they were representative.
2. Stop publishing minor stupidities because they are "exciting".
3. Stop trying to be entertaining or interesting. Stick with informative, and if you get less views, so be it.
4. ???? Open to suggestions. Maybe we could write up a set of voluntary rules for journalists with ethics.
Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#26What are we supposed to read then? Politics is the current day s soap opera
Step away from the screen
Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#27I was surprised to learn that Bukowski submitted poems and stories to The Atlantic in his early, hungry years. In my lifetime, I've only known it as an outlet for partisan opinion pieces. On the occasions that I do visit the site, I wonder what he would say about what The Atlantic has become. Not in terms of how it would suit his political biases, but in the agenda first, logic last, unimaginative partisan hackery. I…
People in the (very small) poetry world used to know the Atlantic as one of the premier places to have a poem published. If you pick up a physical copy there are two or three poems and those are guaranteed to be by someone huge in the American poetry scene at the moment. In the last decade or so things have changed, online has boomed, spoken word/slam poetry took off and left it's mark. And now the markers which sign…
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Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#28I was surprised to learn that Bukowski submitted poems and stories to The Atlantic in his early, hungry years. In my lifetime, I've only known it as an outlet for partisan opinion pieces. On the occasions that I do visit the site, I wonder what he would say about what The Atlantic has become. Not in terms of how it would suit his political biases, but in the agenda first, logic last, unimaginative partisan hackery. I…
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Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would reward reporters who are honest and courageous. The incentives right now punish objectivity and reward conformity.
I won’t call some of these reporters journalists, they are more like activists. They aren’t interested in keeping society informed, they just want to push their agenda.
Ba dam bum.
Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#30Its living in a fucked up society that is bad for your well being. These fucks would rather have you stay ignorant happy and complacent. Fuck them. I wish I could jam political news down the throat of everyone that is dumb enough to say I dont give a shit about politics.