I still follow the news cause as a trans woman, I gotta know if I’m allowed to do things like travel and pee and get groceries.
I’m with you 100% on this. I wish I could turn it off and do something more important. But the way things currently are idk whether I’m gonna have basic rights one day to the next.
And it’s such an exhausting cycle. Trudging through the constant deluge of hate and fear, finding some little glimmer of good news, and then back into the fire.
The headlines are the worst thing to only read. Sometimes they’re flat out wrong and other times you’re being lead by the nose. Headlines are for an emotional response and/or propaganda.
If you read the first 3 paragraphs, that’s usually okay. If it seems like they’re fluffing it up, then try 3/4’s of the way down and skim the last paragraph.
That’s why I read the headlines and the expert commentary in the Lemmy comments.
Forty years ago you still had the daily paper and the Sunday paper.
Even then you only needed the Sunday.
Forty years ago the newsrooms were staffed and the editors edited (sure they’re biased but they had some ideas of integrity) and you could read the paper. Now there’s just so much noise.
You can either read all the news and talk about all the things that should be happening.
Or read just enough to get on with doing something useful in the world and avoid getting yourself stuck or depleted
The evening news is where it’s at.
