Re:Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less dep...
by MockObject on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:55AM
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> Check out the Media Bias Chart: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/?v=402f03a963ba
Where NPR, NYT, and CNN are deemed neutral and balanced, eh?
Such determinations say more about the determiner than the determined.
Check out the Media Bias Chart: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/?v=402f03a963ba
To know what's going on you only need 10 minutes a day skimming stories from a few outlets at the top of the triangle. You can have a remarkably well rounded knowledge of global affairs just from following Reuters' freely available Top News RSS feed. 10min a day on that feed and you will have a better picture of the world than 90% of your peers.
Most people's media consumption is far greater than 10min a day. They stick to one slope of the triangle or another. The problem with all these sites as you go down the slope is that they get increasingly more sensationalist, and even when they remain technically accurate they try to paint an engagement-driving, adversarial, perpetual crisis view of the world.
When you slide down the slope of the triangle you end up feeling like the world is doomed, the enemy is on the rise, everything is broken, because that's how the publisher wants you to feel, because they know it keeps you coming back.
Cut your media diet down, spend 80% of your time on the facts, and 20% on occasional long read analysis from both sides. You'll get smarter and your anxiety will disappear.
As for social media... from a news/events standpoint at least, it's just garbage. A billion lost souls jockeying for imaginary status with imaginary people. Avoid.