My rules of news

Quoting maytham naei

simple rules

• Ignore the news mostly. Stick to science.
• Look at a general news site every day or two to make sure the world hasn't ended and Bob Dylan hasn't won the Nobel Prize in literature.
• Avoid stories that aggravate me.
• Generally stay away from politics. If I decide to read some, go to moderate conservative sources I trust. "American Conservative" is my favorite, although they got a little goofy during the election.
• Stay away from liberal sites. There's nothing more irritating than having to deal with people I'm supposed to agree with who are idiots.
• Use comment sections as a place to test my ability to be civil and look for common values with people I disagree with.

Reply to maytham naei

Generally, sociologists have pointed to the potential biases within news, mainly due to the way in which those who own the news companies have a role in manufacturing it. So, there may be underlying slants, and some newspapers are biased towards particular viewpoints and politics.However, we need to be aware of the news, so need to access it.

Another option, rather than having a set of rules, is to come with a certain amount of critical awareness and, by looking at various sources. There can be so much sensation in news. Also, it is about the aspects which affect us. I find that if I watch too news on television or look at too much news on my phone, I get stressed out. c We are now in the situation of fake news being generated too. But, all news comes with the biases of journalists, and underlying politics. So, perhaps the main thing is to not take it all at complete face value realising that there may be more going on behind the scenes, of headlines, and that is worth trying to dig deeper than the mere surfaces.

Reply to Jack Cummins

Curiosity exhaustion. Very simply in today's world we are overwhelmed with information, and when we are beyond our capacity to process, distinguishing between the simplest facts is impossible. The set of rules are meant to avoid this faith.

There should definitely be ways to take in news in an biased manner. I have been thinking of two methods, computer algorithms and human algorithms. We might needs algorithms to fight algorithms. Hopefully someone can create a software product to do this for us. The human algorithm is just hearing news from friends.

Either way I haven't found a good solution yet.

Even simpler rule.Quoting T Clark

Ignore the news mostly. Stick to science.

Look at a general news site every day or two to make sure the world hasn't ended and Bob Dylan hasn't won the Nobel Prize in literature.

Avoid stories that aggravate me.

Generally stay away from politics. If I decide to read some, go to moderate conservative sources I trust. "American Conservative" is my favorite, although they got a little goofy during the election.

Stay away from liberal sites. There's nothing more irritating than having to deal with people I'm supposed to agree with who are idiots.

Use comment sections as a place to test my ability to be civil and look for common values with people I disagree with.

Check.
You should look more often.
Check, especially the kartrashian type of stuff.
Double check, nothing about anything political is interesting and is annoying.
Triple check, the problem is that sometimes you have to read the article to discover that the writer is an idiot.
No way. The comment sections are there for entertainment purposes. That is one of the best measurement of the decline of people's IQ. And the source of hours of laughter at the stupidity of the posts.