@mph I sense a certain ambivalence here, or maybe I’m just projecting my own: Do I have a duty as a citizen to be well informed? Staying informed is exhausting and depressing. Is ignorance bliss? I’m on the struggle bus here.
@mihobu These things -- national newspapers, NPR, etc. -- are narrow ideological products. There's a particular range of acceptable opinion and definition of "realism," with this subtle implication that if you don't doom-scroll or compulsively follow every development you're an "apathetic" moral defective.
They mutually parasitize social media, with its ridiculous "posting is praxis" pretensions, trying to make us Bayesian sentiment units with a compulsion to appear "informed."
@mihobu@mph I figure I have a duty to my community to be reasonably informed about local issues (and I mean nabe/city as “local”).
I often think about how news has changed in my lifetime. Used to be that there was only news (papers, tv, radio) in the morning and news at night. The morning stuff was mostly local, and a national tv program in the evening. That was it. And I felt pretty well informed. Seems like a much saner system. So now I just get a news roundup email in the morning. It works.
@mitten@mihobu agreed there. I pay much closer attention to local news. I'm content to get a daily "top 5" newsletter, or just have a few RSS feeds that I skim and don't try to read deeply to have a sense of "what's up."
@mph same. I used to listen to npr hours each day. Now, never. They just became a parrot for mainstream perspectives, plus massively increased ad load.
I still am signed up to the times, but rarely read it. I would like to cancel, I think, but I do not think cindy is ready, and I read enough direct links there, it would be hard
@lkanies Yeah, there is a part of me that's sort of ready-fire-aim here, but lately I've been experimenting with "what will you lose if you're wrong about this" and the answer here is "a few isolated moments of 'oops, I guess it's more important to me than I thought.'"
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