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what’s everyone’s best news source these days?

Andrew 2y ago 💬 4

Outside of tech news, I’ve been focused on only getting news that fits both of these criteria:

1) Is a primary source

2) Is news that’s actionable to me in some way

What makes news actionable you ask? Personally, I determine that by asking if that particular news can inform me for circumstances like:

- Making a financial/purchase decision

- Making a voting decision for an election

- Making a decision regarding my health/fitness

Things like that. I find that the vast majority of news isn’t actionable at all, and *at best* is just storytelling to scratch people’s curiosity itch.

At worst, it does nothing but manipulate/instill fear/misinform.

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Ben Weeks ⚡ 2y ago 💬 1

Very stoic :-)

Andrew 2y ago 💬 1

haha you could say that! i just find that if i’m going for scratching curiosity itch, i’d much rather read some history or something, rather than aggregate myself with news.

Ben Weeks ⚡ 2y ago 💬 1

I think you have sound logic there. I guess challenge is avoiding the stuff that you can’t action anyway in the first place.

Ben Weeks ⚡ 2y ago

In a similar vain for voting:

- I ask my account who I should vote for

- I ask my family who who I should vote for

- I ask my friends who I should vote for

From that … I continue to work to make Bitcoin our form of exchange :-)

Andrew 2y ago

I am actually working on a news aggregator site that tries to accomplish these goals. Hopefully will finish it soon!

🌹 2y ago

Unfortunately for news assignment editors it’s often a race to fill time on air or space in print. Notion of quality content is often secondary.

Jedi 2y ago