[OJFord]

It's interesting to me having recently slightly broken a few years' stint of largely ignoring 'the news', at least more than I have for ages, that I've heard about the protests in Iran twice via HN now (previously via Rust 1.65 release note: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33451359) and not at all from the newspapers I've read.

(I think I'll go back to largely ignoring it, satisfied that HN is a perfectly adequate 'jumping off point' for everything worth reading, with perhaps better global coverage of the worthy stuff.)

[mellavora]

I see the merit in avoiding daily news sites, but I spend way to much time on HN, and this is the first time I've seen the Iran protests mentioned here.

vs almost daily for the last while (week? month?) on CNN.

[layer8]

These were on the front page I believe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33398134

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33371121

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33140237

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33106196

This last one was also about Jadi.

[reaperducer]

not at all from the newspapers I've read.

I find that very interesting, since in the national and local newspapers I read in the United States, the Iranian protesters have been extensively covered. There were multiple stories each day at the beginning, and even now at least two or three each week.

In what country are you? Which newspapers are letting you down?

[OJFord]

That is interesting. I'm in the UK, haven't noticed it at all - and I just double-checked The Times (centre-right) and The Guardian (centre-left) online homepages, and also grepped each for 'Iran' and 'protest'. The only hit was for Iran in The Guardian, but that's an article about the war in Ukraine - 'Iran says it supplied drones to Russia before war began'.

[layer8]

This gives me a lot of hits: https://www.google.com/search?q=iran+protests+site:theguardi...

[golem14]

FWIW, I recommend to replace news surfing by perusing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events daily.

I'm not quite there yet myself, I sometimes fall in the bad habit of news surfing for fun, but I found the wiki portal to be sufficient to keep reasonably informed.

[yunohn]

While Wikipedia is great, that link is more like news “trivia” rather than anything substantially informative.

There is absolutely no value to knowing every single accident, disaster, political incident, etc happening in every country around the world today.

[OJFord]

But it does let you decide for yourself which have any importance to you without enticing you with clickbait headlines and images, or pre-filtering for what the particular company's editors or owners want you to see/think you want to see.

[yunohn]

And which of these news trivia facts actually have relevance and importance to you?

I’m not supporting clickbait, just debating the value of a list of events with zero context.

[OJFord]

Thanks - I came across that in reply to a similar comment to my own here recently, I do like the idea of it, might try that for a while.