I read a good bit of news but I try to go deeper now. I'll generally take a look at the AP or the Wikipedia Current Events page. From there I'll try to get more context on what the news means with books or other long form content.
In trying to better understand whats currently happening in Europe I've been watching this CNN documentary about the cold war that was filmed in the 90s and includes interviews with many of the people originally involved.
In some ways I find myself having to do the job I guess journalists used to do. Learning about the subject, acknowledging my own naivete, and then trying to piece together some kind of a narrative of whats going on.
I find podcasts can be good for news but theres a lot of junk in that category too.
It's really hard now. I feel like the things I do to consume news in a way that informs are mostly weird hacks at this point. In the documentary case you can even argue about how much that even has to do with news in the first place. Definitely speaks to the current quality of news content.
In trying to better understand whats currently happening in Europe I've been watching this CNN documentary about the cold war that was filmed in the 90s and includes interviews with many of the people originally involved.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3H6z037pboGWTxs3xGP7...
In some ways I find myself having to do the job I guess journalists used to do. Learning about the subject, acknowledging my own naivete, and then trying to piece together some kind of a narrative of whats going on.
I find podcasts can be good for news but theres a lot of junk in that category too.
It's really hard now. I feel like the things I do to consume news in a way that informs are mostly weird hacks at this point. In the documentary case you can even argue about how much that even has to do with news in the first place. Definitely speaks to the current quality of news content.