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I Hate the News (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
I don't read Internet Newsuntil later in the day so I get up inthe morning don't get on my phone don'thave my phone in bed with me really atall and that I don't like sit down andum you know read the news like check theNew York Times or whatever on my phoneor my iPad instead I bring a book outand I have breakfast and I like read mybook with breakfas
... See morefrom Strong Songs Patreon Q&A! by Kirk Hamilton
Mike "Bagel" added
the pendulum of human attention has swung too far in the direction of compulsive consumption of superficial news. A large percentage of the time we currently spend consuming news would be better spent reading the work of independent researchers or following writers on Substack.
from The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell by David Perell
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- Growing up in San Francisco, I had four choices: The San Francisco Chronicle, The Oakland Tribune, The San Jose Mercury News, and The New York Times. Reading the newspaper was my favorite ritual. But now, my daily sports entertainment comes from internet bloggers who tweet in their underwear. Unless I’m on an airplane with no Wi-Fi and out of batte... See more
from What the Hell Is Going On? by David Perell
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Oh, yeah, the news and Twitter is so toxic; the human brain is not designed to manage every emergency in the world in real-time. We’re not designed to process all the breaking news on the planet in our heads. And this is one of my recent tweets, but the goal of the media these days is to make every problem your problem; that’s how they get attentio
... See moreAmit Cohen added
Keely Adler added
- We only talk about the bad stuff that the new technology does. “Oh my God, the video games, the children.” Meanwhile, the New York Times, who holds them accountable? Fox News, who holds them to account? Who's watching, who cares about the fact that these companies have the same exact incentive of getting people to spend as much time as possible wit... See more
from Are We Really Addicted? by Nir Eyal
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- "The fundamental thing the media does all day, every day, is decide what to cover — decide, that is, what is newsworthy... Here’s the dilemma: to decide what to cover is to become the shaper of the news rather than a mirror held up to the news."
from Why the Media Is So Polarized — And How It Polarizes Us by Ezra Klein
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- And one of the biggest lies that internet culture tells us is that something is only important and interesting if it is new. As someone whose day job is at a nonprofit newsroom, I have a front row seat to the consequences of that lie. Convincing anyone to read a story that is more than a week old is an uphill battle
from Not your usual subscription confirmation by Elan Ullendorff
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