Re:Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
by TaylorAlexander on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:48PM
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He also suggests reading books instead of daily news! He says weekly or monthly reviews would be fine too. This whole thread is full of people thinking he’s suggesting you stay ignorant, when really he’s saying the culture of everyone must read the news is wrong, and we can get our information from better sources than the news.
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Re:Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
by pathseeker on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:40PM
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>and we can get our information from better sources than the news.
I'm not convinced. Reading books just subjects you to different biases from those authors. How are they supposed to be immune to problems periodicals have?
Re:Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
by chickenfries on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:56PM
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I mean the title doesn’t help. You might even call it click bait.
I think the “everyone should read the news” culture that Aaron describes is a straw man. Most people I know who read the news regularly know that it’s partially entertainment for them and that you can get your info from places other than the daily news. Only people like Donald Trump think that being informed means watching cable news all day.
Maybe I just haven’t met any of these people who think that books are bad but daily news headlines are good.