I really feel better since I started avoiding the news. I just read the headlines of some notifications on my phone and it’s enough for me.
I feel almost as great as when I ditched Facebook a long time ago.
Makes you realize how heavy the news can be to moral.
Like the recent headlines about subsidized oil being very much a thing now. This is so very deeply disturbing I just can’t handle it. And I just read the headline I can’t even imagine reading a full article explaining to me that we are getting worse for climate change. We indeed are accelerating toward the cliff.
Still, I feel still so much more relaxed not watching the news on any kind of video platform.
In can’t agree more. I pretty much eliminated any real in depth reading of any article. Most are just plastered in ads. I see a headline that catches my interest, then I do an actual Google search for more information rather than go to the news page.
While I agree that getting bullied in the news cycle is not healthy, I feel like getting the information about what’s going on around you from memes is also not good. It lacks context and details to enable the user from processing the news with critical thinking. I don’t know what the answer is, but for people who exercise their power of a vote, I feel like they need to be as knowledgeable about the issues as possible.
When I worked at Google I would literally check the internal meme site to see if there was an outage. It was at least as reliable as the official channels.
Off the top of my head, I remember a lot based on Scumbag Steve, the Socially Awkward Penguin, Skeptical African Kid, Woody Harrelson wiping away tears with money, “So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice” from Caddyshack, “I’m the captain now”, “That’s a bold move, Cotton”, and whatever this is. Mostly it was the same stuff the rest of the internet uses with a few that were pretty obscure outside Google. Oh and way more animated gifs than you see elsewhere.
If you live in a country where the government bribes all the media, this and Twitter(/Xcrement) or whatever you can find on Mastodon is basically all you can find
I feel like that used the be the Daily Show/Colbert Report, then it became Late Night with Seth Meyers and the Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert in addition to TDS.
But now we have nothing.
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I wish there was something like based.cooking but for news, but the fact is that giournalism is biased in general, so I still would have to look for other sources
To think that people would have opinions that influence their writing. For shame. That doesn’t happen anywhere else. /s
Honestly you need to understand your sources biases and use multiple sources then you’ll get close to the truth. Or at least what you want to be the truth because you have your biases too.
EDIT: thank you for that link. It’s a breath of fresh air.
I’ll take the opportunity to plug ground.news - it’s a site that shows all media sites it can find about a particular news story, displays their political leanings etc, their general writing bias and/or likelihood of misinformation, and then attempts to summarise the story.
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