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我讨厌新闻（2006）
I Hate the News (2006)
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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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这是 Aaron Swartz 2006 年的文章《我讨厌新闻》。他认为日常新闻大多是无关紧要的娱乐和炒作，追踪新闻对个人生活几乎没有价值，真正重要的信息往往来自书籍和深度阅读，而非每日更新的头条。文章多年来多次登上 Hacker News 首页，引发关于新闻价值的持续争论。
为什么经久不衰：新闻过载在今天只增不减，这篇十几年前的文章对'是否值得追踪新闻'的质疑至今仍然切中要害。
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提出'可行动新闻'和'旧新闻'两种改革思路，减少噪音、提高新闻价值
这里有两个降低信息过载、让新闻更有趣更健康的非传统新闻思路：一是'可行动新闻'——只报道公民能够或需要采取行动的消息，如法律变更、即将举行的文化活动、新机构开放、计划中的示威或请愿；二是'旧新闻'——只在事情尘埃落定后再报道，而非正在发生时（尤其避免突发新闻）。比如不猜测谁将被任命，而是告诉我最终任命了谁；灾难发生后等三天，等信息更完整时再报道后果。
asgard1024查看英文原文
Here are two ideas for non-traditional news, that would reduce the information overload, and make news more interesting and healthy: - Actionable news. Only news to which you can (or have to), as a citizen, take some action. Examples: Changes in law, cultural events that will take place in the future, openings of new institutions, planned political demonstrations or petitions. - Old news. Only give news about something after it is resolved, not when it is happening (avoid especially breaking news). Examples: Instead of speculation who will be appointed to some office, just tell me who was appointed. When disaster occurs, wait three days when the information is more complete about the aftermath. Reviews of products that have already been released.
新闻从业者承认追新闻价值有限，但认为集体关注仍有社会意义
奇怪的是，我作为一个新闻公司的创始人，却同意 Aaron 的大部分观点。在宏观层面我担心这种态度，但在微观层面很难反驳。我每天大部分时间都在追踪世界动态，这并没有给我的生活增加多少价值。但我担心如果所有人都不关心新闻——不是因为会毁掉我的公司，而是因为公众的愤怒有时确实能改变事情。这就像投票：我的一票不重要，但加在一起就是一切。我认为好的新闻机构应该像 Google 一样，让你尽快'进门又出门'，用最短时间了解你需要知道的东西。
austenallred查看英文原文
I, strangely enough, agree with Most of what Aaron says. And I'm the founder of a news company. I worry about this attitude on a macro scale, but it's hard to argue with on a micro one. I spend most of my day following what's going on in the world, and it hasn't added much value to my life. But I worry about everyone not caring. Not because that would kill my company (I started it because I hate news in its current form too), but because there are times when public outrage changes things. It's like voting - my vote doesn't matter, but on aggregate it's everything. I'm convinced that the goal of a good news publication should be like Google - to get you in and out the "door" as quickly as possible understanding what you need to know. We're rebuilding everything around that. A publication one can consume in thirty seconds with the most important stuff, ruthlessly curated and fact-checked. No entertainment gossip or puff pieces or PR pitches. (To get it as an email sign up at https://grasswire.com) I'm looking forward to reading what others think on this subject.
反驳 Aaron：全球新闻通过经济与政治深刻影响每个人，不能置身事外
我完全不同意 Aaron。他轻率地断言新闻（即世界）不影响他。没有新闻我们不会知道斯诺登，讽刺的是也不会知道 Aaron 本人。即使过着本地化的封闭生活，新闻也绝对影响我们所有人：美国经济靠金融投资驱动，而金融业又依赖海外的新殖民主义事业——颠覆政权、宣传与禁运、为私营部门操纵国际法。国内法和国际法也因全球化而日益模糊。奇怪的是，以信息自由开放著称的 Aaron，竟只求学术知识而不关心我们生活的这个世界。
xnull6guest查看英文原文
I completely disagree with Aaron, who here seems to jump rather quickly to the (merely asserted) conclusion that the news (i.e. the world) doesn't affect him. (Without this same news we would not have heard of Snowden OR, in an ironic twist, of Aaron himself). Furthermore, how ironic is it that we're discussing this itself on a self-purported news site? The news, even global news, absolutely affects all of us even if we live local, cloistered lives. Let us take the United States - which is overly represented on this site. The US economy is fueled by its finance and investment sectors, which are in turn fueled by neocolonialist enterprises overseas. The success of the US domestic economy is fundamentally tied to its navigating geostrategy and multilateral diplomacy, its overthrowing of governments, stabilizing and destabilizing nations with propaganda and embargos, fixing international law in favor of the leaders of its private sectors, and in its opening resources abroad to US companies is the primary and nearly exclusive driver of the finance sector. And in fact, domestic and international law now blur due to a similarly increased globalization. I find it odd that Aaron, known for his stance on free access to information and to being informed, would fall only to the knowledge of the academic - and not information and facts about the world in which we immediately live. Yes there are some truly irrelevant news items (take celebrities). One must filter and prioritize. It is a small price to pay. I would love to defend whichever notions have offended downvoters.
引用盖尔曼失忆效应：人们明知报纸在自己熟悉的领域错误百出，却仍轻信其他版面
相关链接：盖尔曼失忆效应。你翻开报纸上某篇你熟悉的领域的文章，发现记者对事实和议题毫无理解，错误多到甚至因果颠倒——我称之为'湿街道导致下雨'式报道。你带着恼火或好笑读完这些错误，然后翻到国内或国际新闻版面，却读得好像报纸其余部分比刚才那篇更准确。你翻过页，就忘了自己知道什么。记者就是一群对什么都知之甚少却什么都写的人。
jrogers65查看英文原文
Relevant: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gell-mann-amnesia-effect-is-as-follows-you > Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. Journalists are people who know little of anything writing about everything.
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