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More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have that anxiety

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126 points giuliomagnifico | 2 comments | 07 Sep 25 12:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.517s | source
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habosa ◴[07 Sep 25 14:21 UTC] No.45158369[source]▶
If you want to keep a light pulse on national news without the clickbait and doomscrolling, I recommend https://text.npr.org

It’s text-only, no photos or videos. Updates only once or twice a day. No comments section or any other distractions.

That’s been my main change to my news diet. Deleting the NYTimes app and replacing it with that site has made me much happier.

I still read a lot of local news (San Francisco things that affect my life) but I just realize that national political news is not something I need to track 24/7

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petesergeant ◴[07 Sep 25 14:32 UTC] No.45158472[source]▶
I’ve been using The Economist’s “The World in Brief”, which sounds like much the same thing. I’m six weeks in to the news diet, and am much less angry all the time.
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HarHarVeryFunny ◴[07 Sep 25 14:44 UTC] No.45158606[source]▶
I used to read the UK Financial Times ("the pink 'un") as a source of world news rather than fincancial news - it was always a lot more sober and objective.
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1. gumboshoes ◴[07 Sep 25 16:26 UTC] No.45159612[source]▶
I thought the "pink 'un" was a horse racing paper or odds sheet? I get the color of the paper is the same.
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2. HarHarVeryFunny ◴[07 Sep 25 17:16 UTC] No.45160094[source]▶
I see there is a sporting / football newspaper (or former newspaper - now web site) also called the pink 'un, and apparently there had also been a green 'un focusing on horse racing, but growing up in the UK I had never head of these.

The FT post-dates the original pink 'un sporting newspaper, but was also, and still is, commonly referred to as "the pink 'un".