I Hate the News (2006)
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I Hate the News (2006)
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Re: I Hate the News (2006)
#2I was disagreeing but mentally playing along with the thesis right up until the sign-off:
>> You should follow me on twitter
Boy. If the NYT is going to scramble my brain with too many topics, I don't think what I should do is get on social media...
Re: I Hate the News (2006)
#3I was disagreeing but mentally playing along with the thesis right up until the sign-off: >> You should follow me on twitter Boy. If the NYT is going to scramble my brain with too many topics, I don't think what I should do is get on social media...
I don't think you'll need to worry about how he feels about you not following him on Twitter considering he died 10 years ago.
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#4Archives [1a][1b] as I am unable to view the site, I get a SSL error [2] RIP
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[2] - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.aaronsw.c...
Re: I Hate the News (2006)
#5I was disagreeing but mentally playing along with the thesis right up until the sign-off: >> You should follow me on twitter Boy. If the NYT is going to scramble my brain with too many topics, I don't think what I should do is get on social media...
I don't think you'll need to worry about how he feels about you not following him on Twitter considering he died 10 years ago.
It is easy to forget what a different world it was back then.
Re: I Hate the News (2006)
#6(2006)
Re: I Hate the News (2006)
#7> This seems to be true, but the curious thing is that I’m never involved. The government commits a crime, the New York Times prints it on the front page, the people on the cable chat shows foam at the mouth about it, the government apologizes and commits the crime more subtly. It’s a valuable system — I certainly support the government being more subtle about committing crimes (well, for the sake of argument, at least) — but you notice how it never involves me? It seems like the whole thing would work just as well even if nobody ever read the Times or watched the cable chat shows. It’s a closed system.
This is just blatantly wrong. Actions have consequences and many politicians have lost their job after a story got out.
Unfortunately, this type of thinking is what happens when you live in a stable country. You get too comfortable and start thinking you can just ignore what's going on elsewhere. Who knows, maybe he'll get away with it. I'd wager it was the Russians and Ukrainians who read the news that managed to get out in time before they got drafted and I'd wager back in the 1930s that it was mostly the Jews who read the news who managed to escape Nazi Germany and not get shipped off to a camp.
I'd say there's a strong similarity between the news and martial arts training. 99.9999% of the time you might not need it but you'll be damn fucking grateful the 0.0001% of the time that you do.
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#8It's alright for one person to think this way, but if everyone did we'd be in a bit of trouble as a society. I think the reality is in the middle anyway, i.e. very few people are desperately gripped to each and every story, and if you think you're supposed to care about every story then you're missing the point of the news. Chances are enough people will care about each story to make it worthwhile running, even when many (or most) people don't care. If you're picking up the paper and literally zero stories affect you, well okay then! But you'd be in the minority. For most people there's something in there worth knowing. Even if it's not every single day. Most people benefit from knowing something about what's happening at least weekly. In hindsight this is a really odd article.
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#9>> But if that’s true on a scale of minutes, why longer? Instead of watching hourly updates, why not read a daily paper? Instead of reading the back and forth of a daily, why not read a weekly review? Instead of a weekly review, why not read a monthly magazine?
This is probably best point in this article, the others are quite debatable. I would say that there is a value in knowing whats going on at some scale, but the actual problem is really down to the over-accessibility of news that we have today. Do we really need minute to minute updates on whats happening a thousand miles away?
Re: I Hate the News (2006)
#10I was disagreeing but mentally playing along with the thesis right up until the sign-off: >> You should follow me on twitter Boy. If the NYT is going to scramble my brain with too many topics, I don't think what I should do is get on social media...
I don't think you'll need to worry about how he feels about you not following him on Twitter considering he died 10 years ago.
I guess for context I'll add this is Aaron Swartz, a cofounder of Reddit, and fierce advocate for free speech. He was federally prosecuted for wire fraud in 2013 for downloading academic journals from MIT, faced up to 30 years in prison, and committed suicide just before his trial.