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Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by acuozzo »

ivolimmen wrote: post #50
jeffwass wrote: post #27

At my cousin’s company there are TV’s in the lobby. They used to show news channels. He said clients would come in all stressed out. So they changed to a home improvement channel.

The one featuring Tim Allen? Or is there an actual channel with home improvements in the USA?

https://www.hgtv.com/shows/tv-schedule

"Home & Garden Television". Lots of shows about flipping houses, etc.

It used to be far more instructional (Julia Child-esque) before it and Food Network got swept up in the reality TV craze. It still has the "bones" of its former self though.

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by EffrafaxOfWug »

c16 wrote: post #12

I've done somewhat similar for the same reasons. I realised that if I exclusively read business news I can avoid a good amount of the fluff and sensationalism. I made a browser extension which pushes the headlines from Bloomberg, Financial times Euronews Business and a few others on to my new tab from their RSS, and it's more than enough to give me a nugget of what's going on in the world without being overloaded. 1…

Sounds very interesting. Have you published this extension (or the source code)? I think I would like to try it out.

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by alserio »

josfredo wrote: post #58
nialv7 wrote: post #47

What a privilege, what a luxury, to be able to turn a blind eye to all the injustice that's currently happening in the world... Sure, do what you want, ignore news if that makes you feel better, but do realise for many, they are not afforded this kind of luxury.

The consequences are exactly the same, unless you hold an enormously influential platform.

Maybe, but some groups are banking on you having "news fatigue". So maybe they don't feel that way. And doing it in spite of them is something that balances out my anxiety for me.

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

nicbou wrote: post #59
kornaki wrote: post #18

I’ve had similar experiences. These days I only visit Hacker News to read some tech-related stuff. For me, not reading the news to the point where I ask my mom to turn off the TV when I visit is important, because I want to avoid hearing anything about wars, etc. As someone who lives in Poland, I followed so much news about the war in Ukraine in 2022 and 2023, and it was really bad for my well-being and my behavior.…

It’s unfortunate that American news slip into the HN feed, and that Americans get indignant when it gets flagged. I took so much flak for saying that I already know where to hear about US politics, and don’t need it forced into every unrelated forum.

OK well, it's been my experience that even well informed people from around the world do not understand a lot of American news, so cutting down on it probably doesn't help the nuance building. Aside from that there are a lot of Americans on HN, it's reasonable that they expect to be able to discuss what effects them.

I haven't really noticed politics of other countries get flagged that much, does it? Other than stuff that looks like propaganda from one country against another, that seems to get quickly flagged.

Finally I don't know what makes you think that HN is an unrelated to American politics forum, given that the guidelines of what the forum is for is quite lax.

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by relaxing »

nicbou wrote: post #59
kornaki wrote: post #18

I’ve had similar experiences. These days I only visit Hacker News to read some tech-related stuff. For me, not reading the news to the point where I ask my mom to turn off the TV when I visit is important, because I want to avoid hearing anything about wars, etc. As someone who lives in Poland, I followed so much news about the war in Ukraine in 2022 and 2023, and it was really bad for my well-being and my behavior.…

It’s unfortunate that American news slip into the HN feed, and that Americans get indignant when it gets flagged. I took so much flak for saying that I already know where to hear about US politics, and don’t need it forced into every unrelated forum.

I thought the question was about you reading the news, not about you preventing everyone else from reading the news.

Surely the answer is, when you see news related keywords in an article title, to simply not click through. Same as when there’s so bit of technology or corporation that doesn’t interest you.

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Post by burnt-resistor »

nialv7 wrote: post #47

What a privilege, what a luxury, to be able to turn a blind eye to all the injustice that's currently happening in the world... Sure, do what you want, ignore news if that makes you feel better, but do realise for many, they are not afforded this kind of luxury.

Billionaires and/or other oligarchic dictators love it when the zone is flooded, consent is manufactured, the people are divided and conquered, and the people no longer pay attention to meaningful signals nor travesties. This gives them maximum power when the people ignore everything and obey in advance or suffer from learned helplessness.

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by jaapz »

popalchemist wrote: post #74
kornaki wrote: post #18

I’ve had similar experiences. These days I only visit Hacker News to read some tech-related stuff. For me, not reading the news to the point where I ask my mom to turn off the TV when I visit is important, because I want to avoid hearing anything about wars, etc. As someone who lives in Poland, I followed so much news about the war in Ukraine in 2022 and 2023, and it was really bad for my well-being and my behavior.…

When the world is on fire and people are suffering, we have a moral obligation to be aware of it and take part in the healing. To turn off your access to the media is a temporary solution that may well be justified in the short term, but you do not have the luxury of forgoing your part in this world, because if you do, it will burn all the way to your doorstep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXgWZyb_HgE

You can still be a proponent of change and discuss these changes with local politicians and what not without being on a 24 hour news IV.

However, looking at the current political climate in my own country, I too have lost faith in them solving local and global issues. When the people I can vote for don't actually solve pressing societal problems, then what's the point? Now factor in the influence of people in large countries that are in power that I can't even vote for...

There is a glimmer of hope that the EU now seems to have finally found some balls somewhere though, with their response to the Greenland situation. Maybe they've finally learned that a strategy of appeasement does not work for strongmen in power (hey, that sounds familiar...)

Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by [deleted] »

berrycan wrote: post #35
walthamstow wrote: post #32

> I am considering subscribing to a magazine that covers important events in Germany, the EU, or the world every few months I've posted the same message so many time I could get banned but if you live in the UK then Private Eye is what you want here. It's every fortnight, very funny and a bastion of genuine journalism (see the Paul Foot Award they give out each year)

I used to have a subscription to Private Eye but cancelled it as it got so depressing from being too aware of all the corruption. Worse than browsing the news.

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Re: I stopped following the news

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Post by SSLy »

pendenthistory wrote: post #31
sjw987 wrote: post #4

I think it's important to keep reading the news occasionally. Personally, I, as a programmer, read the news in the same way as my grandad who was a farmer. I read a printed weekly publication (in my case The Economist) on Sunday morning. Outside of Sunday morning I don't read the news at all. I prefer printed news to media-supported news, because I think the imagery (I acknowledge The Economist still has images) and…

I would like a weekly physical Sunday paper with some general news and printed substack articles tailored to me.

the closest thing is doing that to an epub to be sent to your e-paper device.
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