Ancestors

Written by Derek Caelin is writing a book on 2025-01-27 at 13:56

I stopped my subscription to the #WashingtonPost and rely on mostly #NPR. One month in:

• I don't receive "breaking news", for better or for worse. NPR's cadence is slower, focusing on high level overviews rather than by-the-minute updates or high-focus on particular aspects of an event.

• I consume news less frequently. A five minute news summary in the morning, and occasionally checking the app means that I spend under 20 minutes a day consuming #journalism

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Toot

Written by Derek Caelin is writing a book on 2025-01-27 at 14:02

I think I am less aware now of events as they happen. For example, the whole #Colombia/US episode passed me by. I saw someone share the Colombian president's X post, thought, "that's odd, I wonder what's happening?" and didn't find out until this morning, when apparently the event had passed.

I spend less time thinking about the news. I am frequently upset by the stories I read or hear. I think I'm still getting the major events as they come... but I get them once, not seven times a day.

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Descendants

Written by Derek Caelin is writing a book on 2025-01-27 at 14:02

TLDR I think the decision to switch to #NPR as my main news source was a good one.

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Written by Meznor on 2025-01-27 at 14:14

@derek I feel like the next evolution of news/journalism needs to be much much slower, much more deliberate. This is against the grain of how news has evolved into an eyeball-catching capitalist and money-making enterprise, of course. But think about what, on the news today, any one of us can possibly do anything about. What's the point of knowing stuff when it happens, except climate emergency things that affect my direct location? None of it matters to my life. I can know it later.

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