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

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126 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 12:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | 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]▶

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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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1. FollowingTheDao ◴[07 Sep 25 17:28 UTC] No.45160251[source]▶

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But maybe you should be angry? Anger is a great motivator for people to change governments and policies.

Maybe the real source of anxiety is people have justified anger but no where to direct the anger to affect change?

Maybe it is better to keep reading the news and organize people to make it so we do not have any bad news to report.

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