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from the Aaron Swartz piece, "Edward Tufte notes that when he used to read the New York Times in the morning, it scrambled his brain with so many different topics that he couldn’t get any real intellectual work done the rest of the day." -- hmmm might be something to that.
Guy hates on news because it's short and irrelevant. Asks you to follow him on twitter. Makes sense. Either way, it seems like he's hating on physical generalized news, rather than aggregated personalized news. Completely different. I don't get shit about politics or anything in my news. Just stuff that's relevant and important to me.
1. Hubski 2. NPR 3. The Atlantic 4. The Economist 5. Media REDEF newsletter from Jason Hirschhorn 6. Friends and family
I haven't watched cable news, or even network news in over 6 years. It's utter crap. I very, very rarely feel I'm at any disadvantage in life because of this. If anything, it's the opposite.
Twitter PBS Newshour Connect exactly with the sources you trust
Highly underrated. If you are going to watch one broadcast news show make it this one. The level of intellect will leave you feeling respected. Plus no commercials and no need for cable.
I can't get enough sources. I like to follow everything that's happening in the world at all times. I've been following several issues since as far back as 2006! I enjoy staying up to date on the latest events, but it is certainly time consuming. My sources for news vary depending on what I feel like reading. For example, I'll go to Tumblr and follow some universities, which lead me to read about current ground-breaking research. Other news sources include Vice News, NYT, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Reddit, but my most favorite is AP for up to the minute releases. They're arguably one of the most trusted news sources I've come across, and possibly the world tbh. Following so many news sources leads me to cross-reference with others to fact check or pick up on something one or the other missed. i don't follow any one particular news source... I follow the truth.
Der Spiegel Reuters BBC World News, on the radio through NPR or online NPR
Hubski NPR /r/canadapolitics CBC radio (CBC television kind of sucks, imo)
Does the term "news" still make sense? Isn't every thing stale now after 15
minutes? I wish we could start verbally reframing all of this information that each of us feels is important. That said I use: 1. news.google.com to lead me to: -> local newspaper websites about story -> national and international news source about story 2. metafilter for thoughtful, text-only heavily moderated discussion about an current event, cultural trend, or digital Doritos. 3. The Daily Show, Tonightly, Last Week Tonight. 4. A very brutish sports radio show but I have low testosterone ... I am trying to fix that. 5. NPR radio for access to audible primary sources. 5. hubski/reddit/boingboing is a triad of information that I wouldn't label as "news" but are often tangential to current events. I come to Hubski to post things that I want to be able to find later & hope to see stuff related to what I post.
Digital subscriptions to De Volkskrant and De Correspondent. In general, I'm apathetic to the news. Those two outlets are the only ones I actively read because they provide high-quality content, expose me to topics I wouldn't have found on my own and because they mostly ignore the hype of the day. When I read a news story, I care most about its place the bigger picture. Edit: I also listen to Slate's The Gist podcast from time to time, which always has a 'story of the day' segment.