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戒掉新闻后你会注意到的几件事（2016）
Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)
2016 — 2022，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
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作者分享戒掉新闻（主要指电视和网络新闻直播）后注意到的五件事：新闻大多与自己无关、情绪被操纵、真正的要事总会通过他人得知等。文章区分了刷新闻与深度阅读长文，并非否定新闻业本身。
为什么经久不衰：它提出一个反直觉但经得起时间检验的观点：远离 24 小时新闻循环反而让人更平静、更了解真正重要的事，在信息过载的今天依然适用。
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新闻和广告的操纵性对情绪和心理健康的伤害真实可见，家人就是例证。
我完全同意。浏览 Google News 或 BBC、路透社等专业媒体，我依然消息灵通，但不会陷入“专家分析”或情绪波动。我还注意到新闻的操纵性有多强——不只是政治层面。我家孩子多年没看过有线电视广告，一次在酒店看儿童节目时插播广告，他们看了几遍就疯狂想要广告里的玩具、复述广告词，行为反差惊人。我父母离网一周回来后打开新闻，立刻觉得一切都很糟糕、很愤怒，却还停不下来看。无法与之保持距离的话，这对心理健康太有害了。
macksd查看英文原文
I fully agree with this. Scanning Google News or a couple of the more professional international news services like BBC / Al Jazeera / Reuters I still feel pretty well informed (and confident that there's usually nothing of immediate consequence to me) but it doesn't grow into "expert analysis" or impact my feelings much. Here's another thing I noticed: how manipulated / manipulative it is. And not just news and I don't just mean politically - I know everyone thinks that news that doesn't align with their politics is just brainwashing. Broadcast TV is just generally awful now IMO. We went quite a few years without ever seeing cable. My kids would stream shows and consume other media on-demand, but any advertising was minimal and fairly non-intrusive. And then they were watching a kids show at a hotel once and the ads came on and the effect it had on them was crazy. They suddenly desperately needed all the toys in the commercials and were repeating catch phrases from ads after only seeing them a couple of times. The contrast in their behavior was insane. And they HAD to keep watching it like I hadn't seen before. I spent a week off-grid with my parents a while back and it was great. We came home and my Mom put on the news suddenly everything was terrible and she was angry, but she had to keep watching. Just awful for mental health if you can't separate yourself from it.
推荐 PBS NewsHour 和 The Economist 作为深度、冷静的新闻替代品。
我强烈赞同，但想推荐一个美国更接近“读 5000 字长文”体验的节目：PBS NewsHour。它对国内外新闻做深入、有思考的报道，几乎从不陷入有线新闻那种“世界末日将至”式的渲染，完全免费，还有播客版。The Economist 也是很好的资源，每周还有音频版。
flats查看英文原文
I strongly agree with this. I would, however, like to call out one TV program here in the U.S. that I think comes much closer to approximating the experience of “reading a 5,000-word article”: PBS NewsHour. It’s great, completely free and available to watch online, and you can even get most of what you need from their podcast alone (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/segments). It consists of fairly in-depth, thoughtful coverage of both domestic and worldwide news topics, as well as a tiny bit of political analysis on Mondays and Fridays. It almost never devolves into the breathless, “the world is about to end”-type coverage found on basically all cable news programs. Judy Woodruff and her team are really great. I dearly miss Gwen Ifill and Jim Lehrer. The Economist is also a great resource, as has been pointed out by other commenters here. They publish an audio edition of each week’s newspaper, too.
以亲身经历指出电视新闻对事实的选择性呈现是一种感知操纵。
主流新闻在操纵你。你可以学阿拉伯语或俄语，亲自去乌克兰、叙利亚、伊拉克和当地人交谈了解双方说法，也可以让电视媒体告诉你发生了什么。我做过前者，震惊地发现电视呈现的与现实毫无关系。我曾看到一个叙利亚人给我看 CNN 报道的一场示威：他们调低音频，告诉观众示威者是另一边的人——懂阿拉伯语的人能听出抗议者真正在说什么，但 CNN 根本不在乎，因为大多数美国人不懂阿拉伯语。控制了感知，就控制了人们的情绪，就能让他们做你想让他们做的事。
codingdave查看英文原文
I quit watching the news right around 1999. My family once challenged me how I knew about important events, and I told them that people in my life would let me know if anything occurred that I needed to know. They challenged me by quizzing me on major recent events. When they did find one that I had no idea about, they asked, "See? Nobody told you about that!" I replied, "You just did." And they have not argued about it again. They do continue to inform me, though, and it all works out.
引用杰斐逊 1807 年的信，说明对新闻的不信任由来已久。
“现在报纸上看到的东西没有什么是可以相信的。真相一旦被放进这个被污染的载体，本身就变得可疑……从不看报纸的人反而比看报纸的人消息更灵通；因为一无所知的人比满脑子错误与谬见的人更接近真相。”——托马斯·杰斐逊致 John Norvell，1807 年 6 月 11 日
wu-ikkyu查看英文原文
>nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. the real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knolege with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time: whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables. general facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will &c &c. but no details can be relied on. I will add that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. he who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false. -From Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 11 June 1807 http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-5737
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