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Re: Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'

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Post by jaredwiener »

rambambram wrote: post #128
jaredwiener wrote: post #113

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For what its worth, I'm a former journalist looking to automate this. Getting on those newsmaking lists, and automating the rest. Free, consumer website: https://www.forth.news Paid site with custom notifications and feeds: https://pro.forth.news

Your 'personal' site in your bio is giving me a browser-warning not to visit. Maybe expired certificate? Btw, nice initiative with Forth! That's why I clicked.

Thank you!

Looks like I didn’t rotate my certificate. Eek

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Post by choult »

I am so glad to see these guys get some well-deserved attention!

I worked with the founders Marcus and Rob, and met their infographics whizz Christian waay back when they were kicking this off. I was blown away by it then, and I continue to be blown away now.

Here's to the next 15 years!

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Post by sedawkgrep »

SoftTalker wrote: post #37
sedawkgrep wrote: post #19

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> This is really what a lot of people need, a return to learning about something 2-3 weeks after it happens and more details are known. I agree. Aside from emergencies or other truly circumstance-changing news, I am not sure there's really any value in being immediately informed vs. days or perhaps even weeks later. I just hadn't thought in these terms before. I can't help but imagine how much healthier our society w…

We don't have a local newspaper anymore but there are a couple of bloggers who follow city council meetings and other local happenings. I read those fairly frequently. National/world news I have stopped following at all, as 99.5% of it doesn't affect me and I have no influence over any of it.

Doesn’t the saying go something like “all politics are local” ?

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Post by daniel_iversen »

bch wrote: post #121
openasocket wrote: post #51

One thing that has really frustrated me with "mainstream media" in the last few years is that the level of effort being put into journalism seems to be on decline. I feel like half of the news articles are just a collection of quotes from officials or politicians in public statements, being regurgitated without any additional effort. Outrageous claims are just taken at face value, or at best just put alongside quotes…

I don't know what qualifies as "mainstream media" here, but I feel various public broadcasters have served me well over the years: CBC[0] in Canada, BBC[1] in United Kingdom, NPR[2] in America, ABC[3] in Australia, NHK[4] in Japan... switching around the world also gives reprieve from local politics letting you tune into someone else's local politics practically recreationally, which seems more and more necessary in…

The ABC in Australia feels so opinionated and tilted to the “left” side of politics whenever I’ve watched it on the TV. And it may just have been that news show or the specific host but it makes it not enjoyable to watch when it seems there’s always an “angle” and negative undertones and people constantly having an axe to grind. I’d personally like a bit more neutral news that also leans a little more on the positive and inspiring side.

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Post by rjyjfjftjt »

mikestew wrote: post #13
45h45h4h wrote: post #9

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one of the first commenters commenting about not being first - irony

https://lowres.cartooncollections.com/all_or_nothing_fallacy...

I don't think it's a gotcha to point out it's ironic to literally be the thing someone is complaining about.

Further irony, your gotcha is like exactly the point the comic is trying to make. It's like you were made by God to demonstrate failure.

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Post by Gigachad »

DrewADesign wrote: post #92
openasocket wrote: post #51

One thing that has really frustrated me with "mainstream media" in the last few years is that the level of effort being put into journalism seems to be on decline. I feel like half of the news articles are just a collection of quotes from officials or politicians in public statements, being regurgitated without any additional effort. Outrageous claims are just taken at face value, or at best just put alongside quotes…

I was glad to see a bit of a decline in the “Worrying Trend: (a dozen) People (on Twitter) are saying [controversial thing] !” type of articles filter down through whatever algorithm I was subject to at the moment, but notes they’ve just replaced it with TikTok.

This always felt like way to work around libel laws. Where they can claim "People on twitter are saying x", as an indirect way of making a claim without having to be liable for it.

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Post by nzealand »

petercooper wrote: post #59
Seattle3503 wrote: post #33

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Did they show the same news as everyone, but later? That seems like it doesn't fully leverage the format. The format seems like it would be good for things that are subtle and got overlooked at the time. But I guess maybe the normal news cycle can surface those same things when they reach a breaking point.

It's been several years (and the issues are in my office so I could take a look later) but I recall it was a mix. They'd sometimes group big stories together thematically (like when all the billionaires were starting to get into space) but also do longer-term reflections on single, complex stories like the Salisbury Novichok incident. I don't recall it really surfacing things that didn't make the news cycle, but one…

This is exactly correct. Here is what the latest issue covers:

His exfiltration of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was swift, effective and - as we found in our follow-up reporting - surprisingly popular among Venezuelans (plo). But then the 47th president threw himself into a new venture, a major attack on Iran. Far from being a surgical strike à la Caracas, it rapidly spiralled into a regional conflagration which threatened to blast the global economy off its hinges. We have analysed the build-up and fall-out of the Iran war in forensic detail in an infographic extravaganza (p70). While Trump loomed large throughout the quarter, adding an Ice operation in Minneapolis (p30) and unseemly wranglings over Greenland (p50) into the headline-grabbing mix, his was not the only game in town. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested (P66), a football final turned into theatrical chaos (p40), the power of Al gave hope to sufferers of ultra-rare diseases (p80) and victory was declared over ferrets on a Northern Irish island (p100). Meanwhile Nasa scientists announced fascinating revelations drawn from their analysis of a thimbleful of space dust obtained at great expense from a four billion-year-old asteroid (p56).

edit: you can see some samples on their website: https://www.slow-journalism.com/back-issue/62-jan-mar-2026

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Post by para_parolu »

munk-a wrote: post #61

It turns out there are a few stories that are important to be immediately aware of (declarations of war, local events like service outages or celebration - and only if they're planned with short notice). Most of the rest of the news is important for the purpose of holding people to account but outside the influence of regular people. We can live in a society where a massive scandal happens and it takes two months for…

The problem is that sometimes declaration of war means bombs are falling on your head. Or you are drafted. Sometimes you want to be a bit ahead of big news.

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Post by jihadjihad »

petercooper wrote: post #31

I was subscribed to this. It's beautifully designed, well written, good paper stock, the works. If the idea appeals to you, it's worth trying. Ultimately, it didn't work for me, but that's my fault. Despite my best intentions, it turned out I wasn't interested in reading about world affairs beyond the news cycle.

I subscribed for a year, but like a sibling comment said, it was too focused on Commonwealth news and culture to be worth my time.

It was however entertaining to receive in the mail, inside a nice form-fitting cardboard box with Royal Mail elegantly stamped on it.

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Post by akoboldfrying »

peaseagee wrote: post #85
TacticalCoder wrote: post #64

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If it had been a lab leak, how would that change the behaviors that everyday people would have had to take? The social distancing, masking, handwashing, quarantining would have all been identical.

If Joe Bloggs didn't die peacefully in his sleep as we were initially told but had in fact been murdered, how would that change where we buried him?

It wouldn't change where we buried him at all, but it would materially change many other things, at least in the minds of people opposed to murder.

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