[HN Gopher] I Hate the News
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       I Hate the News
        
       Author : sealeck
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2023-07-04 22:20 UTC (40 minutes ago)
        
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       | noduerme wrote:
       | I was disagreeing but mentally playing along with the thesis
       | right up until the sign-off:
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       |  _> > You should follow me on twitter_
       | 
       | Boy. If the NYT is going to scramble my brain with too many
       | topics, I don't think what I _should_ do is get on social
       | media...
        
         | Kye wrote:
         | I don't think you'll need to worry about how he feels about you
         | not following him on Twitter considering he died 10 years ago.
        
           | nexus7556 wrote:
           | It is easy to forget what a different world it was back then.
        
       | LinuxBender wrote:
       | Archives [1a][1b] as I am unable to view the site, I get a SSL
       | error [2] _RIP_
       | 
       | [1a] - http://archive.today/KMAEL
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       | [1b] -
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20230704222137/http://www.aarons...
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       | [2] -
       | https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.aaronsw.c...
        
       | tacker2000 wrote:
       | (2006)
        
       | rcarr wrote:
       | > This seems to be true, but the curious thing is that I'm never
       | involved. The government commits a crime, the New York Times
       | prints it on the front page, the people on the cable chat shows
       | foam at the mouth about it, the government apologizes and commits
       | the crime more subtly. It's a valuable system -- I certainly
       | support the government being more subtle about committing crimes
       | (well, for the sake of argument, at least) -- but you notice how
       | it never involves me? It seems like the whole thing would work
       | just as well even if nobody ever read the Times or watched the
       | cable chat shows. It's a closed system.
       | 
       | This is just blatantly wrong. Actions have consequences and many
       | politicians have lost their job after a story got out.
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       | Unfortunately, this type of thinking is what happens when you
       | live in a stable country. You get too comfortable and start
       | thinking you can just ignore what's going on elsewhere. Who
       | knows, maybe he'll get away with it. I'd wager it was the
       | Russians and Ukrainians who read the news that managed to get out
       | in time before they got drafted and I'd wager back in the 1930s
       | that it was mostly the Jews who read the news who managed to
       | escape Nazi Germany and not shipped off to a camp.
       | 
       | I'd say there's a strong similarity between the news and martial
       | arts training. 99.9999% of the time you might not need it but
       | you'll be damn fucking grateful the 0.0001% of the time that you
       | do.
        
       | dryanau wrote:
       | It's alright for one person to think this way, but if everyone
       | did WWF be in a bit of trouble as a society. I think the reality
       | is in the middle anyway, i.e. very few people are desperately
       | gripped to each and every story, and if you think you're supposed
       | to care about every story then you're missing the point of the
       | news. Chances are enough people will care about each story to
       | make it worthwhile running, even when many (or most) people don't
       | care. If you're picking up the paper and literally zero stories
       | affect you, well okay then! But you'd be in the minority. For
       | most people there's something in there worth knowing. Even if
       | it's not every single day. Most people benefit from knowing
       | something about what's happening at least weekly. In hindsight
       | this is a really odd article.
        
       | tacker2000 wrote:
       | >> But if that's true on a scale of minutes, why longer? Instead
       | of watching hourly updates, why not read a daily paper? Instead
       | of reading the back and forth of a daily, why not read a weekly
       | review? Instead of a weekly review, why not read a monthly
       | magazine?
       | 
       | This is probably best point in this article, the others are quite
       | debatable. I would say that there is a value in knowing whats
       | going on at some scale, but the actual problem is really down to
       | the over-accessibility of news that we have today. Do we really
       | need minute to minute updates on whats happening a thousand miles
       | away?
        
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