About news consumption
A day before Russia invaded Ukraine, I was suggested an article with an interesting perspective on the TV and internet newscasts.
There’s a big difference between watching a half hour of CNN’s refugee crisis coverage […] versus spending that time reading a 5,000-word article on the same topic. David Cain
The article Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News by David Cain convinced me to avoid following the news everyday, focusing my attention to long form articles and essays once a week or so.
I woke up without checking the newspapers, and got to know about the invasion on a Slack group. We hear about major events anyway, and there are plenty of ways to get better information about the world.