I get very frustrated, sad and emotional when I read CNN or any of the major news sites. So I avoid it. Instead I use Wikipedia once a month : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/Septembe...
This, this is awesome
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
#52Right. Probably says something more about the Atlantic editors than the people who actually do incredible and productive things either on Show HN or Product Hunt to even waste an hour on reading dreadful articles like this one.
Now if you excuse me, I have to continue counting the pages of sales from my paid customers for this week.
Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#53I get very frustrated, sad and emotional when I read CNN or any of the major news sites. So I avoid it. Instead I use Wikipedia once a month : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/Septembe...
That's intentional, especially with CNN. The major news sites have essentially been tabloids since the death of print.
Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassionate reporting these days.
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#54> After controlling for household income, education, age, gender, race, marital status, and political views, I found that people who were “very interested in politics” were about 8 percentage points more likely to be “not very happy” about life than people who were “not very interested” in politics. If we could locate these philosopher-kings from Aristotle and put them in charge, then ignoring politics might be safe.…
As a hypothetical, can you imagine a scenario where nobody voted or put faith in the political class? From this perspective, participation only validates the farce.
If you’re upset about the system or the options, your other option is to vote a write-in. This sends a stronger message in my opinion: we call such votes “protest votes”, whereas not voting all all leaves the situation a bit more ambiguous to the rest of us.
Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#55I get very frustrated, sad and emotional when I read CNN or any of the major news sites. So I avoid it. Instead I use Wikipedia once a month : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/Septembe...
Thanks for sharing this link. It helps catching up with news once a month or so.
Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#56I get very frustrated, sad and emotional when I read CNN or any of the major news sites. So I avoid it. Instead I use Wikipedia once a month : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/Septembe...
That's intentional, especially with CNN. The major news sites have essentially been tabloids since the death of print. Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassionate reporting these days.
PBS News Hour. I've never watched more boring and informative news in my entire life.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only worthwhile journalism is activism. Discomfort the powerful. Unfortunately it's dangerous to be too good at this, see Daphne Caruana Galizia.
The truth doesn’t have an agenda
Unfortunately, truth hasn't published any articles. So far, only subjective views have been published by fallible humans.
Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#58When the rich and powerful rig the economy, then the real problem is when you read about it. Not that it really happens.
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#59Earlier 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.
I wouldn't call them journalists either, more like royal scribes speaking to a class of courtiers. Real journalists have agendas other than uncritically repeating what some unnamed intelligence source told them.
Re: Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
#60Or political articles spewed by The Atlantic