Quitting pro sports has the same effect as quitting news.
Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your dad's broader point is a really good one, but the example of Andrew Cuomo doesn't seem like the best to me depending on when it was said. For a while there Cuomo was being talked about very seriously as the heir apparent to the Democrat presidential nomination. I agree with OP that "civic duty" is a silly reason for watching the news, but when it comes to voting to give people massive amount of power, that reall…
This falls into a trap of preparing for every possible outcome when you have finite time and attention. If Cuomo runs for president, there will be plenty of time to make an informed opinion then. The trap set by news is implying that something could possibly impact you when it probably wont.
Indeed, good point. There's no shortage of coverage on presidential candidates long before you enter the ballot box.
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#173It's been about 8 years since I've completely stopped watching tv news or reading newspapers but this post made me realize that I still browse reddit and r/worldnews sometimes.
This is just to say that quitting everything might be close to impossible considering that in some cases we even get news reports via unsolicited SMS messages but we can still reduce input and have a more focused, calmer state of mind.
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#174A great way to quickly catch up is to use something like the BBCs "What's the papers say" page [0] or similar alternatives. It gives both a broad overview and also an opportunity to see different perspectives on the same news.
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#175As someone who just stepped back into pop culture after being in prison for years (so might as well been on the moon) my first shock was just how horrible it all is now. There is no news worth watching. Cable news is just a pile of filth excremented by a Labrador Retriever that solely eats baby diapers. I thought I will watch Bloomberg since if real money is involved it can't be too manipulative. Nope, wrong. The int…
If you don’t mind when did enter prison? Basically what time period are you comparing against?
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll bite. The Economist is a right-wing publication. The quality of the writing is usually pretty good so it's not a bad choice if you're in to that sort of thing, but it is propaganda.
Clearly you don't have any sort of social standing to uphold and have disqualified yourself from the discussion! Citations Needed has a decent episode on the publication and its history: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-98-the-refined-so...
That seems like a quite opinionated podcast indeed. From the blurb it sounds like the old proverb “som fan läser bibeln” (don’t know if you have it in English but it means “like the Devil reads the Bible”).
The book discussed could be interesting though. I might pick up a copy!
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#177I fully agree with this. Scanning Google News or a couple of the more professional international news services like BBC / Al Jazeera / Reuters I still feel pretty well informed (and confident that there's usually nothing of immediate consequence to me) but it doesn't grow into "expert analysis" or impact my feelings much. Here's another thing I noticed: how manipulated / manipulative it is. And not just news and I do…
I think about this a lot when I occasionally go to the movies. I remember going as a kid and maybe you'd have a slideshow of low-budget local ads for a dentist's office or whatever until the movie started and then have some previews. Now it's just a non-stop barrage of ads. They will colonize every last waking moment of your attention. I think about my 4 year old niece who's never been to a movie theater and who will be completely defenseless against this kind of thing. It makes me sick to my stomach.
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#178A useful middle ground is to only read periodicals. These publications give journalists time to distill news into accurate, complete information with some analysis. The articles are information-dense and an efficient method to stay aware of current events without a significant investment of personal time.
I currently prefer The Atlantic and The Economist for this purpose, but there are many choices.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "Why do you care what Andrew Cuomo is doing in New York city?" In and of itself, I don't. Unfortunately, the local politicians toe the party line and ape the Big City / Big State politicians, the Cuomos and the Garcettis of the world. Suppose you could paint it at some level as "know thy enemy" (pardon the abrasiveness of the wording) because those states are something of a test bed for what to expect from the loca…
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#180you will click the headline and you will like it