On Reading the News
This article from NiemanLab titled “I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how.” didn’t start particularly well for me. It read less about ways to read the news, and more about the inability of some people to just, you know, keep their phone in their pocket when they’re with other people. I know some people truly struggle with this, with connectivity, social media, and all that stuff leading to real mental health issues but, well, I don’t get it.
Anyway, there’s a great bit in the middle of the article, when the author decides to change their ways:
I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news. I have resubscribed to print newspapers because they are finite; when you’re done, you’re done