If you’re reading a news story and you need to examine your feelings, then they’ve got you right where they want you and you should be angry enough to change how you read news stories.
I currate my news currently through newsletters like The FreePress with Bari Weiss and others like Glenn Greenwald, and Matt Taibi. I've found Quillette to be a very good source for longer form discussion of current news. I also use The Sample to introduce me to new sources. https://thesample.ai/?ref=9034
So many things to consider here. I'd like to comment on two here:
1. "Once upon a time you could trust what was printed in a newspaper. A lot of effort went into a printed newspaper." - I've found this more of a nostalgia bias and actually has ties into the fact that so many comic book super heros were newspeople (April Oneil, Clark Kent, Peter Parker) News has ALWAYS been biased and the reality had to be dug for. I do think there was a short period where they major agencies really did TRY but then, you still had Peter Parker fighting against the Editor of the Daily Bugle all the time.
2. Twitter. You are 100% right and it comes down to our 200 cognitive biaes. They group in 4 categtories (Need to act fast, not enough information, not enough context, and knowing what to remember). Twitter triggers the first three with almost every tweet and the 4th comes into play when you think you know the topic. When you stack biases you end up at an edge position, not a central one.
Interesting. We have so much access to information, but it is sad how we can still be so ill informed. I am going to check out some of your "neutral" publications that I remember reading at my high school library when I was doing research for a paper.
The search algorithms and automated feeds are definitely a problem. I don’t believe news was once a clarion voice of truth, but it was once monetized in a way that privileged reliability.
I currate my news currently through newsletters like The FreePress with Bari Weiss and others like Glenn Greenwald, and Matt Taibi. I've found Quillette to be a very good source for longer form discussion of current news. I also use The Sample to introduce me to new sources. https://thesample.ai/?ref=9034
I love the sample. Great stuff every day if you set your settings well.
So many things to consider here. I'd like to comment on two here:
1. "Once upon a time you could trust what was printed in a newspaper. A lot of effort went into a printed newspaper." - I've found this more of a nostalgia bias and actually has ties into the fact that so many comic book super heros were newspeople (April Oneil, Clark Kent, Peter Parker) News has ALWAYS been biased and the reality had to be dug for. I do think there was a short period where they major agencies really did TRY but then, you still had Peter Parker fighting against the Editor of the Daily Bugle all the time.
2. Twitter. You are 100% right and it comes down to our 200 cognitive biaes. They group in 4 categtories (Need to act fast, not enough information, not enough context, and knowing what to remember). Twitter triggers the first three with almost every tweet and the 4th comes into play when you think you know the topic. When you stack biases you end up at an edge position, not a central one.
Interesting. We have so much access to information, but it is sad how we can still be so ill informed. I am going to check out some of your "neutral" publications that I remember reading at my high school library when I was doing research for a paper.
Check out allsides.com as well, the link is at the end of the piece.
Yes, I did. Will head back there again. Thanks.
The search algorithms and automated feeds are definitely a problem. I don’t believe news was once a clarion voice of truth, but it was once monetized in a way that privileged reliability.
In my mind I’m going back to Lois Lane, Mary Tyler Moore. But I hear you!