[keiferski]

The fact that this is downvoted really says it all. "I don't read the news" is pretty much dependent on one's profession being insulated from changing events. Which is not surprising why it's a popular opinion amongst technocrats that would rather not have democracy in the first place.

[ben_w]

Excerpt from link:

  For the rest of the news, I am considering subscribing to a magazine that covers important events in Germany, the EU, or the world every few months. This kind of format filters out short-term noise and fear-driven stories.

Elections happen even less frequently than this. If your democracy disintegrates with less than a few months of warning, you were probably invaded and noticed even without the news; At this point, that would probably lead to a civil emergency notification on your phone, and by design that happens even without any apps installed.

As we said in the UK in my childhood, "Today’s news is tomorrow’s chip* paper".

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips

[keiferski]

Just because news orgs are incentivized to be controversial and attention-seeking doesn’t mean that the world isn’t changing rapidly.

Personally I think once a week magazines / reviews are a good compromise. I’m not sure how useful reading 3 month old news will be.

[matthewdgreen]

In October 2024 I would not have guessed that we'd ever see masked agents killing people on the streets of major US cities, or the US administration immediately accusing the victims of being armed terrorists. Things can change rapidly. By allowing things to get this bad, we have unfortunately forfeited our right to pretend things can't change rapidly. Let's plug in; fix this situation; and then folks can go back to ignoring the news.

[ben_w]

"Every few months" would make the important question for that ~ October 2025, not 2024.

The available news in October 2025 said "this is a question of when, not if".

[oridentity]

> on one's profession being insulated

Even this is privilege. Try "one's identity".

Last year, legal immigrants were fine. Today, their kids are kidnapped and used as bait to take them to Alcatraz. And that's not even the identity I'm mostly referring to.

Very cool stance OOP, thank you for identifying yourself as the type of centrist heaven will reject at the gate and angels will never get tired of the reaction to the shrug.

[stressback]

I'm not sure it's a good idea to be intellectually dishonest if you care about seeing the change you want to see.

Kidnapping kids is what they are doing?