Ask HN: Have you stopped reading most news?

Western media is not controlled by the goverment, so they are free to report on anything they want. I saw them interview pro-russian people in those regions right in the battle areas.

On YouTube I follow Denys Davydov, a Ukrainian pilot that reports about the war. A few days ago he showed a video of a Ukrainian helicopter flying close over traffic, and he was critiquing how irresponsibly and dangerous that was. He claims to know that road and that is was far from the battlefield. So even him as a Ukrainian is able to try and be as objective as possible.

News can be objective. The claim that western media is full of propaganda is just kremlin propaganda.

When you say "News" (just "News") I don't see what FB and Twitter has got to do with it. For "News" I think newspapers. So, over breakfast I check my country's equivalent of BBC first, sometimes the shortlist, to see what the lunatic has been up to since last night. What happens over there is not that far away from any place in Europe. Then I read two local newspapers, online versions, and then the actual BBC. If I still have time I read two Japanese newspapers, English edition. I sometimes read those later in the day too because in addition to news they have some interesting short stories now and then.

That's "News" to me. I read HN on and off during the day, when I'm waiting for a test to complete or there's some other reason for a break, and there's also some technical stuff I follow.

So no, I have not stopped reading news. Can't do that, I'd rather know what happens before I get it in the face. But I mostly get my news at breakfast, then I (mostly) concentrate on other stuff the rest of the day, and I may check news again after dinner.

I never touch FB or Twitter. I did have an account on FB once, just because someone said "You should make an account so that others don't make one in your name" so, well, I did.. and FB blocked me after a while, presumably because I never posted anything. Anyway, FB? That's not what comes to mind if someone says "News".

I do use facebook and twitter, but generally ignore political posts, reshared posts, ads and news.. what's left you ask? good question, not much.. It's sad that, for me at least, it's still the only place where I can keep a casual link to the people I know, where I don't have to be very active to seek out those connections, or work to maintain them, but I still find comfort in knowing that IF I wanted/needed to, I could reach out to an old classmate or acquaintance. It fits my type of personality well, not having to be actively maintain a casual connection to a hundred people, yet still be able to have a slight sense of what's going on...

For news, I don't seek them out much, HN is my daily source of new interesting stuff.. (I find it similar in some way to fazed org back when.. though more technically focused).

I have subscribe to a few RSS feeds, worldnews and a few others on reddit that I peruse once in a while, but not even weekly.. Along with hackaday feeds.

I do visit gossip sites daily, to glance over the headlines, but I rarely click on them, it's more of a meta-thing, getting some idea of what society is interested in, rather than trying to find out what's actually happening (which I don't think you can from those sources anyway)

I've only done the "hide person for 30 days" to my entire facebook list as they come up. Works great for an FB break

No, I use feeds so I own my aggregator (even if without much ML fancy) and annotate things via org-mode.

Respect of the past instead of just reading headlines, now turned too much into pure propaganda, I try to spot trend aggregating different PR news here and there. It's time consuming but as a sysadmin I have many "free time" still bound to a desktop so... when I'm on holidays, on a trip etc I just casually looks headlines and coming back skim a bit what's accumulated, generally dropping the excess. Not really a good balance but effective enough for my taste.

Unfortunately in the modern world a GOOD source who made daily press review does not exists anymore so...