I recommend projectcensored.org for media perspectives, and meta-perspectives, that are not commonly shared. I have browsed their stuff, and their books, off and on, for more than 20 years now.
A lot of news shows up in the business section framed as an economic issue (for example, projected drops in China’s GDP due to its latest heat wave and drought) when the actual circumstance has additional, sometimes obvious, implications not covered in the story’s economic analysis.
I don’t mean to imply that censorship dominates the news, but I agree that it’s sometimes pieces with more entertainment value than news value that dominate. For example, no amount of study of a celebrity’s car accident deserves the level of news attention that such things get.
There’s sometimes a barrier to entry to follow news in some area, for example:
exchange design in finance
developments in medical protocols
changes in laws regulating a popular industry
threatened changes in insurance availability
trends in software production
The barriers aren’t high, but lack of context makes important news seem meaningless. It’s hit or miss whether you encounter the sources that build context for you or have the experiences that give you the context unless you’re a professional in a field. You can be an information junkie or be on some sort of mission or I guess some of you folks are superforecasters, but that’s not what most people do.
I recommend projectcensored.org for media perspectives, and meta-perspectives, that are not commonly shared. I have browsed their stuff, and their books, off and on, for more than 20 years now.
A lot of news shows up in the business section framed as an economic issue (for example, projected drops in China’s GDP due to its latest heat wave and drought) when the actual circumstance has additional, sometimes obvious, implications not covered in the story’s economic analysis.
I don’t mean to imply that censorship dominates the news, but I agree that it’s sometimes pieces with more entertainment value than news value that dominate. For example, no amount of study of a celebrity’s car accident deserves the level of news attention that such things get.
There’s sometimes a barrier to entry to follow news in some area, for example:
exchange design in finance
developments in medical protocols
changes in laws regulating a popular industry
threatened changes in insurance availability
trends in software production
The barriers aren’t high, but lack of context makes important news seem meaningless. It’s hit or miss whether you encounter the sources that build context for you or have the experiences that give you the context unless you’re a professional in a field. You can be an information junkie or be on some sort of mission or I guess some of you folks are superforecasters, but that’s not what most people do.