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