Concept is interesting. Needs an option to remove underlines and no dark mode.
If your browser/OS is set to dark mode, it automatically switches to the dark interface (using CSS prefers-color-scheme).
Slower News
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#52The only difference between this and the NYT (or every other mainstream media outlet for that matter) is scale.
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#53I use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events for keeping track of what's going on in the world without being inundated into short-term reactions, clickbait and hype.
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I’m not aware of any news vendors who list the stories they choose not to cover. The only thing I am aware of that is even close is Project Censored, which aims to document the most important stories that have been ignored by all major news outlets each year: https://www.projectcensored.org/category/the-top-25-censored...
All of these pieces of 'news' are just outright opinion pieces on issues that have been covered in the news...
Are they? I’ve read two of the articles so far and i haven’t run across editorial opinion yet.
Can you point out an opinion expressed by the publication?
As for covered in the news, they do reference the niche sites which cover the stories they’re reporting but i would take it to mean they’ve not been reported in the mainstream news. The two stories i read don't appear in a google news search for example?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, I've been interested in reviving something that might be called slow news. Its more like the weekly news digest. Lots of times first reports are inaccurate, or woefully incomplete, and the corrections never get noticed; also, sometimes we need to slow down to cogitate on the news instead of just reacting to it.
I'd like to see something that detects trends, not fads. Basically "slow news" that detects news that continues to be news long after the story has broken. Google actually had this c. 2012 - there was a portion of the SRP that was devoted to "long form" articles, long articles that continued to get searched for months after they came out. It surfaced some really good content, but the SRP was probably was the wrong fo…
I have actually found that wikipedia articles on current events can fulfill this role (or at least the one I imagined) in a decent way (ie. constructing more and more complete news pictures).
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#56For what it’s worth, the New York Review of Books accomplishes this for me. Don’t let the title fool you, they write in depth about current affair topics.
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#57For what it’s worth, the New York Review of Books accomplishes this for me. Don’t let the title fool you, they write in depth about current affair topics.
I came here to say the same thing. Opening a new issue of The New York Review of Books or the London Review of Books are two of the great pleasures in life.
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#58I feel the name is a misnomer. These articles are opinion and analysis. News is different. Slow news would not be very interesting, either.
Well, I think that's the key observation: when you no longer chase "breaking" news, you have to provide more analysis. When "X does Y", you don't usually need to learn about it within 60 minutes. You usually need to understand "What are the implications of this? Is Y really necessary? What is the motivation driving X?". I can recommend subscribing to the paper version of The Economist, you will see that the "breaking…
Providing analysis is one direction.
But there is another: Reporting news that already happened.
See, most news report on what will happen today, what is expected to happen within 3 days, 1 month. It builds expectations and stress in the mindset of the listener; It keeps the audience hung to the news stream but I think it is the most toxic characteristic, even before the divisive aspect of current news providers.
It’s as if we got so fast that instead of reporting on news « within 1 day! » or « within 1 hour! », we provide the news within « -3 hours ».
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#59Cool, I like that it's just links. Actually reminds me of Arbtr, an ultra minimalist curation platform http://www.arbtr.com