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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by coreyp_1 on Saturday December 31, 2016 @11:43AM (#13291744)
"Watching" is a very low-bandwidth way to consume news. I stopped watching about 8 years ago. I'm glad to see that the rest of the world has caught on!

FWIW, I generally know about everything a day before it hits the major news outlets. After being freed from the slow, commercial-filled news cycle of tv and radio, who would ever want to go back to such a slow delivery system?

Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by h1d on Saturday December 31, 2016 @01:41PM (#13292408)
TV news is such a joke, in 20 minutes you get to see 1 important topic of the day and a couple random things you don't even want to know about in a hope that they will tell you something interesting which will not be the case.

Using the web you can narrow that down to 5 minutes without occupying your mind memory too much to something uninteresting which I think is important to keep some room to fill in or use for your creativity.

Also for other reasons that TVs are not productive, I ditched that thing 10 years ago after getting out of college. Never missed it.