Thank you for taking time to compile this list! As a US resident, I know that all of our media is compromised, biased and filtered. I was in Mexico last year and was impressed by their coverage of US happenings which differed greatly from US coverage of the same events. I am going to try your suggestion to compartmentalize. I am also trying meditation and going to the gym to manage my rage.
That's very interesting about Mexican news! Meditation is actually one of the things we considered recommending people try, I have been doing something similar.
Thank you so much for pulling these together! I'm already subscribed to some of the newsletters you named and can confirm they're really useful, and I've added a couple more. Also appreciate the reminder to actually set aside time for news instead of letting it bleed into random and boundary-less points in the day.
I also want to add a recommendation for "legacy" news media in the US that remains high quality and needs extra support right now: public media. I'd encourage folks to follow PBS News and NPR (national and/or your local affiliate) and support them financially if you're able. These networks are not corporate owned and (at least for the moment) receive public funding. Their reporting is great and offers both national and local/regional/state news. In recent years they've needed to rely more on corporate "donors" to fill the gap as public funding has been cut (they technically can't have advertisers) but if more individuals support them they might have a fighting chance at staying afloat without them. (no, they aren't perfect. But there's value in keeping what independent institutions we can while we can, too.)
Honestly it has made such a huge difference - limiting news-checking as much as possible to predetermined periods of time.
You make a good point also about PBS and NPR. I believe in publicly funded news media (the CBC here in Canada is flawed but I do really appreciate that it exists.)
Thank you for taking time to compile this list! As a US resident, I know that all of our media is compromised, biased and filtered. I was in Mexico last year and was impressed by their coverage of US happenings which differed greatly from US coverage of the same events. I am going to try your suggestion to compartmentalize. I am also trying meditation and going to the gym to manage my rage.
That's very interesting about Mexican news! Meditation is actually one of the things we considered recommending people try, I have been doing something similar.
Thank you so much for pulling these together! I'm already subscribed to some of the newsletters you named and can confirm they're really useful, and I've added a couple more. Also appreciate the reminder to actually set aside time for news instead of letting it bleed into random and boundary-less points in the day.
I also want to add a recommendation for "legacy" news media in the US that remains high quality and needs extra support right now: public media. I'd encourage folks to follow PBS News and NPR (national and/or your local affiliate) and support them financially if you're able. These networks are not corporate owned and (at least for the moment) receive public funding. Their reporting is great and offers both national and local/regional/state news. In recent years they've needed to rely more on corporate "donors" to fill the gap as public funding has been cut (they technically can't have advertisers) but if more individuals support them they might have a fighting chance at staying afloat without them. (no, they aren't perfect. But there's value in keeping what independent institutions we can while we can, too.)
Honestly it has made such a huge difference - limiting news-checking as much as possible to predetermined periods of time.
You make a good point also about PBS and NPR. I believe in publicly funded news media (the CBC here in Canada is flawed but I do really appreciate that it exists.)
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