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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 03:42:21 JST clacke

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   I would really like it if there were good institutional support for Olds.

   The newsflash last year, what came of it? Was it something to care about or was it overblown? Which hot takes were complete garbage and which ones panned out?

   I started wishing for this for science news, which is perhaps the most useless form of news of all. Big headlines on preliminary results with little to no peer review yet done, hyped and copied from university press releases. Gradually I have come to think that all News is like this.

   The thoughtful analysis happens in books a year or more later, when it happens at all.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 03:42:23 JST clacke

     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan Qualified No. News is entertainment. The purpose for following the News is to keep up with watercooler talk.

     It is good if the voting populace stays educated on what's going on in the country, what decisions are going to be made and why. Most of what is called News does not cover that.

     Citizens have so much going on and they all cope in their ways. It is not fair to say the burden is on each of them to read and analyze multiple sources, sift through the noise, follow the trails that lead back from there. Because that is the way to meaningfully follow the news.

     It's a hobby, a special interest, to know what's going on. Preferably everyone would at least have a friend like that, but in reality not everyone will. Second best is that activist organizations make themselves heard when something is seriously going wrong.