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Re:The News Is Information Junk Food (2022) by smoe on Thursday August 08, 2024 @07:15AM (#41190210)
I stopped reading news around 2012, while working at a large newspaper in Switzerland. Or maybe better put, replaced it with slower forms of information.

Instead of doom scrolling news sites and social media for things that happen right now, you wait for some people to actually have time to investigate, synthesize, etc. There is just little to no actual information in the former way of consumption.

There is a good The Guardian article from back then.

“News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier” (2013

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...

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Re:The News Is Information Junk Food (2022) by jamil7 on Thursday August 08, 2024 @08:04AM (#41190603)
Yeah I've done something similar, I just buy and read the go-to books on the topic I want to know about now. Although I somtimes slip and end up scrolling through some news sites, I've churned through a lot of actual books related to current geopolitics.
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