Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company

Re:Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company by basch on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @02:04PM (#37053099)

Cable News may have boiled it down to its essence, but the problem transcends tv. The same problem exists in writing, its just more spread out.

If you synthesize all that happens in Washington in a day, it is a giant soap opera. IT keeps its power by keeping people paying attention to it. Even a "just the facts, maam" view of the news is largely rabblerousing. I wonder how much of what I see on https://www.memeorandum.com/river today will matter in 10 years. How much of it belongs in a history book. How much of it is needed to make an informed decision in an election. How much of it is needed to understand the world around me.

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Re:Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company by jspiral on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:18PM (#37056760)

yes, a weekly recap of the big stories from 10 years ago this week and what ultimately came of those topics would be fascinating context

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Re:Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company by human_person on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @12:34AM (#37058737)

I think the amount of news we expose ourselves to should correlate more with the closeness of the events (or inversely with their distance from us). We can actually have an impact on events in our local community. And in a lot of ways what is immediately around us when we walk out the front door has a more impact than anything else on how we experience the world. News from far away is just second hand sadness.

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