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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by StClaire on Saturday December 31, 2016 @11:58AM (#13291818)
I spent the last year getting 95% of my news from The Economist's leaders and the world this week. Did I know about every mass shooting soon after it happened? No. But I spent a half hour a week and could speak reasonably competently about the election.

More importantly: the news didn't consume me like it swallowed some of my friends

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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by emodendroket on Saturday December 31, 2016 @12:56PM (#13292163)
Yeah, and you also got all your information about the world filtered through the Economist's extremely ideological lens.
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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by stevedonovan on Saturday December 31, 2016 @01:32PM (#13292364)
Once you know their agenda, you can filter. At least they're not hysterical. Part of the problem is the very different meaning that the word 'liberal' has in the UK.
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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by emodendroket on Saturday December 31, 2016 @01:45PM (#13292434)
Filtering can't tell you what they leave out.
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