Re:Stop Reading News (2013)
by dgellow on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:44AM
(#19084761)
You can be informed without following news. Often reading books/articles produced some time after an event gives a more nuanced and in-depth analysis.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
>some time after an event
Or before. I learnt more about 21st C USA by reading Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) than anything written since.
I don't disagree, but the time that passes limits your ability to respond in the present.
Don't eschew current news because it's slight, because it's invite, because it's simplistic in form. That's the point.
>I don't disagree, but the time that passes limits your ability to respond in the present.
What examples are there of any meaningful "responding in the present" that happened because of news (as opposed because of directly suffering some oppression on yourself)?
Re:Stop Reading News (2013)
by zimpenfish on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:09AM
(#19085381)
> What examples are there of any meaningful "responding in the present"
Protest marches? Strikes? You could even include terrorism if you wanted.