I miss the days of just having the local paper in the yard in the morning, and Walter Cronkite on my black-and-white TV. (I’m old enough now I’ve earned the right to pine for the good ol’ days.)
I was raised quite right-of-center, so that’s the news and radio that I gravitated to as it became available. Thank goodness I outgrew it- but it took a long time! You get sucked into that “us vs. them” or “sports-team” sort of mentality, as you’ve pointed out.
Thanks for the counsel “don’t feed the algorithm.” It’s easy to forget about that. I was pleased to see that the new sources I now use are in the middle section of the data above. As far as Facebook and Twitter go, if it were up to me neither would exist. I’ve never done Twitter, and I canceled Facebook some years back because (for me) it was useless and a waste of time and energy.
There’s much in your essay above to digest. Thank you! I’ll have to read this again later,
I miss the days of just having the local paper in the yard in the morning, and Walter Cronkite on my black-and-white TV. (I’m old enough now I’ve earned the right to pine for the good ol’ days.)
I was raised quite right-of-center, so that’s the news and radio that I gravitated to as it became available. Thank goodness I outgrew it- but it took a long time! You get sucked into that “us vs. them” or “sports-team” sort of mentality, as you’ve pointed out.
Thanks for the counsel “don’t feed the algorithm.” It’s easy to forget about that. I was pleased to see that the new sources I now use are in the middle section of the data above. As far as Facebook and Twitter go, if it were up to me neither would exist. I’ve never done Twitter, and I canceled Facebook some years back because (for me) it was useless and a waste of time and energy.
There’s much in your essay above to digest. Thank you! I’ll have to read this again later,