“I’m changing the way I read news”.
This is good from Laura Hazard Owen:
I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news. I have resubscribed to print newspapers because they are finite; when you’re done, you’re done. Here, I’m taking a cue from Kelsey Richards, the “print princess” and “media literate hottie” who reads print newspapers on TikTok. “When you read print media, you give yourself that space to feel those emotions compared to if you read something online and then you immediately switch over to Instagram…and then you go on Twitter….and then you go on Facebook…and then a CNN notification comes up on your phone,” she told Slate last year. “With all those distractions, those emotions no longer belong to that blocked-out time period. They are now convoluting your schedule, your work, the fact that your mom just texted you that something’s going on with your grandparents — it’s just too much for your body to handle. Print media gives us the opportunity to sit down, and decide when we want to feel the emotions we want to feel, rather than letting some arbitrary algorithm decide how we should feel.”
It’s so easy to get sucked into a way of life where we’re never not looking at the news. But it’s not good for us.
I don’t have a print subscription, but I do tend to mostly just read one newspaper each morning for 30 minutes on my iPad. And then I check in on my RSS feeds a couple of times a day. I’ve found this approach so much better.
