What do you think about mainstream news? Do you consume it on

yeah what's up with that i don't even smoke crack

I don't read mainstream news. I prefer to think for myself.

I don't read any news because I think it's almost always a waste of time.

nytimes has always been trash

>>9064385
I think that reading reuters, the independent, christian science monitor, and le monde will give you a good broad view. Add that to The Atlantic, NYRB, New Criterion, American Conservative, Jacobin for some editorial views, and NPR in the morning, and maybe BBC world service, and you will have enough viewpoints and ideas to create your own world view.

Fox news and breitbart. All media has some bias. I know both of these news organizations have a conservative bias, but they are the most entertaining.

>>9064385
This article isn't inherently wrong, """nutrition""" only affects your life as much as you want it to.

>>9064387
>I
*you'll cowards

>>9064402
this. i read /pol/ and watch livestreams of happenings

>>9064523
when will you realize that this is a tremendous waste of fucking time and you could literally just read the greeks and romans instead?

>>9064543
I've read them. I'm not a child, or a college student. I live in the world, and don't subscribe to NEET concepts of man as an island. I have investments, and children, and I make educated decisions. Furthermore, there has been a very interesting rebound in longform essays (check out longreads) and many good ones (and bad ones) come out a year.

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>>9064385
>that article is literally saying that healthiness is a spook
I'm so proud.

>>9064637
have memes gone too far?

>>9064385
'respectable, mainstream' media outlets, like the NYT, NPR, Wapo or the guardian, are half CIA/State Dept. plants and half inane rantings of neurotic bourgeois liberals with too much time on their hands.

>>9064385
It's shit.

Real patricians get all their news from /pol/.

>>9064385
>But I would like to add that sugar tastes really, really good.
Holy... I want more

>>9064523
All pretentious cuck garbage.

>>9064385
I, a true intellectual, get all my news from Breitbart, /pol/ and the daily stormer

>>9064990
Your use of the term cuck shows you to be an anti-intellectual. Show yourself out.

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>>9065009
holy shit, I knew this board had gone to shit recently but I didn't know we were so overrun by /pol/ vermin. gtfo and go back to your containment board

>>9065015
unironically trusting WaPo and the NYT has to be at least as bad as getting your news from infowars. for example, see the completely manufactured russian panic stories they've been pushing lately. To say nothing of the total inanity of their opinion section. The cargo cult of 'respectability' is just the product of media's self branding efforts.

>>9065015
>redditor tries to pretend to be a le oldfag
kek

>>9065015
at least theyre on the right website
>>/2x4 chan/

>>9065013
t. cuck

Go back to your anti-Trump protest, faggot

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>>9065028
>le pol hivemind
genuine cancer

FT, Economist, Süddeutsche, Die Zeit

>>9065033
>multiple people thinking you're a retard is a hivemind

>>9065035
t. Neoliberal reptoid shapeshifter

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>>9065032

I get most of my news from Reddit, /pol/ and the national radio.

>>9065059
stale meme

>>9064533
This is blatantly untrue

>>9065033
The NPR bougie lib hivemind is also a hivemind, anon

>>9064385
News rots your brain: makes you less creative and dumber.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

the study is probably bogus but anecdotally I find it to be true

for /lit/ purposes I'd avoid entirely

>>9064385

I sometimes read Reuters but I can't stand mainstream news in general. It perpetuates its own existence in a constant never-ending wheel of drama. I believe paying attention to the world outside of yourself is good but, fuck, it's gotten to the point where it functions like an addictive drug. The positives no longer outweigh the negatives.

I guess 24/7 news channels and the internet have created this monster. The internet has also made it much harder to avoid news.

>>9065113
How exactly can news make you dumber?

>>9065123

Because blindly following an 800 word article that espouses significant ideas without considering its own ideological perspective or bias is dumb as fuck.

>>9065077
who cares, it says what it needs to say

>>9065123
hinders your ability to think about anything other than meaningless minutiae

>>9065296
christian scientists are a thing you doofus

>>9065304
I guess a scientist with an imaginary friend is very reliable though, lmao

it should be legal to beat journalists of all kinds with sticks

>>9065304

Christian Science is a cult, it has nothing to do with actual science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science

I enjoy reading The Economist for my news, it's quite well-informed, and even if one article is blatantly biased they have good columnists and analysis. I don't have to wade through a bunch of middling stuff like I have to do on massive news sites like New York Times and even worse The Guardian

>>9065318
>actual science
You mean a cult?

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>>9065113
>News is bad, stop reading news
>t. news website

>>9065013
Implying I am dominated by spooks like the right-left paradigm

>>9065396
this wasn't implied at all

Loyal Private Eye reader reporting in. No political bias, they hate every cunt equally. Their In The Back and In The City sections are the most vital investigative reporting I've ever encountered, so much so that I wish there was an entire publication dedicated to such writing.

>>9065437
do people even subscribe to the Private Eye anymore? i barely hear or read about people discussing it

>>9065123
im so glad im not this stupid

collecting miscellaneous """facts""" certainly doesn't make you more intelligent.

>>9065123
it saturates your attention and memory because of how important it seems, but yields no results whatsoever in your life, creating a significant dissonance.

>>9064385
Skimming reuters, foreign affairs and le monde diplomatique. /pol/ for habbenings and alternative facts.

>>9065443

Readership of 200k, should be a lot more if you ask me but then I would say that. You probably read shit that they broke first all the time because almost all UK mainstream media plagiarises them.

Side note, I'd read the Economist but their pro-globalism stance puts me off. If I'm going to read something, I want every side to a story.

I have bad teeth so eating lots of sugar basically sentences me to dental pain

>>9065491
>but their pro-globalism stance puts me off
I agree and I'm a subscriber. but on other stuff, they have lots of gems in terms of articles, and the quality of their content is relatively consistent. I have yet to find a better magazine/newspaper that's not satire

>used to be subscribed to nyt
>realize that you can bypass the monthly limit of 10 articles by clearing your cookies
take that globalists

>>9065512

It's the only other publication I'd consider subscribing to, but I'd always be wondering what they aren't reporting on. With Private Eye they don't give a fuck, as long as they're angering the establishment they're happy, that's why I'm so loyal. Conservative? Lol fuck you. Labour? Lol fuck you. UKIP? Lol fuck you. It's a wonder I even bother to vote anymore.

I tend to read Reuters or get most breaking World events from twitter.

>>9064523
>New Criterion
>Jacobin

Glad I'm not the only one who likes the snobbiest of the Right and the snottiest of the Left.

>>9065042
Feels good to be one tbqh.

>>9064558
>NEET concepts of man as an island
lmao #rekt 75% of all posts