Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being

Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by deadalus on Sunday October 18, 2020 @12:53PM (#24819195)

I get very frustrated, sad and emotional when I read CNN or any of the major news sites. So I avoid it.

Instead I use Wikipedia once a month : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/Septembe...

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by notankies on Sunday October 18, 2020 @01:05PM (#24819289)

That's intentional, especially with CNN. The major news sites have essentially been tabloids since the death of print.

Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassionate reporting these days.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by Medicalidiot on Sunday October 18, 2020 @01:08PM (#24819316)

PBS News Hour. I've never watched more boring and informative news in my entire life.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by throwawaygh on Sunday October 18, 2020 @06:08PM (#24821512)

NewsHour is great. Litigation of the petty partisan crap is restricted to a 10-15 minute segment on Friday evening.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by easton on Sunday October 18, 2020 @05:06PM (#24821134)

Reuters TV[0] is pretty good for this too, you can even set how much time you want to watch it and it will pair down the information. Extremely boring for the most part.

0: https://www.reuters.tv/

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by MeinBlutIstBlau on Sunday October 18, 2020 @02:19PM (#24819943)

Cspan in a nutshell

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by koolba on Sunday October 18, 2020 @09:52PM (#24822720)

Even C-SPAN has its hacks: https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-joe-biden-donald-t...

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by SV_BubbleTime on Sunday October 18, 2020 @11:32PM (#24823098)

Excellent wordplay

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by throwawaygh on Sunday October 18, 2020 @06:06PM (#24821500)

> Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassionate reporting these days.

Really? Our local TV news websites are:

1) absolutely terrible user experiences -- like, so many ads that the scrolling lags on my 16 inch MBP.

2) clearly just reposting whatever their parent networks feed them for everything except local news (so, Fox and NBC, the two mentioned in this article, are literally feeding lines to these "local" channels that are ostensibly totally different from their parent networks)

IMO: the death of local newspapers is a problem but the death of local TV news can't happen fast enough.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by WalterBright on Sunday October 18, 2020 @03:41PM (#24820491)

CNN is nothing but editorials.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by jader201 on Sunday October 18, 2020 @02:54PM (#24820196)

The OP link is to September, but if you go to the main/parent link, it’s always the current month, which conveniently has today’s news at the top (reverse chronological):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by nunez on Sunday October 18, 2020 @12:58PM (#24819229)

This is incredible. I wish I knew about this years ago. I have long been looking for impartial news sources. I used to listen to CBC, NPR, and ABC (Australia) to try and get more angles to a story, but that got tiring.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by DC-3 on Sunday October 18, 2020 @04:31PM (#24820899)

I use the BBC World News site as my homepage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by nradov on Sunday October 18, 2020 @08:11PM (#24822224)

Once you become consciously aware of their emotional manipulation techniques you can watch without being impacted. Still a waste of time, though.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by spaetzleesser on Sunday October 18, 2020 @04:00PM (#24820632)

I read only Reuters and APNews these days. They report things but not in a way to make you emotional. They make news outright boring which is a good thing.

I don’t know what happened to CNN. Seems they have decided to become the left wing FoxNews.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by awak3ning on Sunday October 18, 2020 @02:57PM (#24820213)

That's a very good resource, I find that even if one truly believes that the news or political media is not warping your vision of reality and your beliefs that is not the case. Once you step back and view the situation from the outside, then you really start to understand how people's nervous systems are being regulated and influenced by the media.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by AdamGibbins on Sunday October 18, 2020 @03:01PM (#24820232)

https://weekly.hatnote.com/ might be of interest, weekly update with the most active wikipedia entries. Tends to be news events.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by tartoran on Sunday October 18, 2020 @01:07PM (#24819307)

Thanks for sharing this link. It helps catching up with news once a month or so.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by jaredtn on Sunday October 18, 2020 @01:04PM (#24819279)

Thank you for this!

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by mawaldne on Sunday October 18, 2020 @02:54PM (#24820195)

Great suggestion! I’m going to try this as well.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by lenitabinol on Sunday October 18, 2020 @08:55PM (#24822449)

Wikipedia is a great filter.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by _prototype_ on Sunday October 18, 2020 @01:04PM (#24819283)

This, this is awesome

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