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Re:YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politica... by MBCook on Saturday September 08, 2018 @03:10PM (#17942269)
I’ve gotten to that point too. Even before things got so much worse in the last two years I had already mostly tuned out of news because it stopped being journalism. I would 100% tune out near the end of election cycles.

So much of it is just straight reporting. “X said this, Y said that.” No analysis, no critical thought as to whether any of those few points worth presenting at all. Just clips of people’s claims, totally unchecked.

If I wanted to know what a candidate or CEO said without any analysis, I could just read their press release.

Re:YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politica... by repolfx on Sunday September 09, 2018 @06:18AM (#17945224)
Seems everyone is tuning out but for different reasons.

I still read a lot of news, but I don't like the dish I'm being served, exactly because it is not just straight reporting but rather is a non-stop stream of journalists' personal political opinions masquerading as analysis and news. I actually would prefer to just read their press releases unfiltered, if there was an organisation that aggregated the ones I'd happen to be interested in, in a trustworthy way.

Re:YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politica... by sureaboutthis on Sunday September 09, 2018 @06:42AM (#17945277)
TV "news" people interviewing themselves.