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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by jfim on Sunday December 27, 2020 @10:48PM (#25556508)
The difference between newspapers and internet news is that the newspaper for a given day is finite.

Once one has read whatever articles they were interested in for that day, that's it. No refreshing multiple times per day, no reading long comment threads, no frustration about said comment threads ("how can people be so wrong on the internet, must reply"), no live updates on stories, and more time to think instead of mindlessly consuming more information that's of lower quality.

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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by yarcob on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:34AM (#25571506)
Most daily newspapers have plenty stuff to read for hours, and often come with extras with even more stuff to read.
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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by raldi on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:27PM (#25556673)
Clearly you've never been a New Yorker subscriber.
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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by jfim on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:39PM (#25556730)
I'm not sure I follow you here, can you elaborate on what you mean?

The New Yorker has long form articles that take longer to read than the typical daily newspaper article, sure, but I'm not sure how that makes it non finite or more engaging than daily newspapers.

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Re:90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (... by raldi on Sunday December 27, 2020 @11:54PM (#25556791)
Every subscriber has an endless stack like this in one or more rooms of their home or apartment: https://www.google.com/search?q=stack+of+unread+new+yorkers&...

They don't throw them out because they really intend to finish them one day.

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