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miki123211 ◴[] No.42952631[source]
I wish there was a modern "news wire" service to help with this problem.

I'm thinking tweet-sized news stories, a few per day at most, no threads, no images, no links, nothing but 140 characters of pure text. You could even deliver them as texts or unclickable push notifications.

That format heavily discourages clickbait (because there are no clicks to be had) and forces journalists to only include the information that actually matters, with no fluff about how they were sipping hot cocoa in a nice indie restaurant in Montana when talking to the subject of the story, a 38-year-old man wearing a polo shirt.

You could run an operation like this on a shoestring budget, with one or two individuals regurgitating news stories from mainstream sources in a much denser format, minus the outrage. Many, including me, would probably be willing to subscribe.

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lannisterstark ◴[] No.42952647[source]
Or you could just read actual wire services. AP/Reuters etc have close to no clickbait.
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1. cenamus ◴[] No.42952752[source]
Yeah, news ticker sounds like the perfect solution. If something relevant comes up you can still look up some full articles
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2. carbocation ◴[] No.42952939[source]
The front page of Reuters right now is a story about a major presidential proposal[1]. I think that is certainly headline news in the traditional sense. Still, it would be nice if there were additionally a news wire that didn't cover statements, only events.

1 = (Not describing the content because that's not the point.)