2025-03-05 How do you process the news?
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> I'm looking at the blog and noticing that I haven't posted much.
> It's hard.
A long time ago I discontinued all my daily newspapers and just kept
the weekly left-leaning cooperatively-owned Wochenzeitung. Once a
month it comes with the German edition of Le Monde Diplomatique.
I used to read a lot of newspaper articles online, when I saw links in
social media. But more and more of them erected a paywall. more and
more of them have become pretty useless unless I go through the uBlock
Origin settings to unblock random domains with more scripts and
things. And so I have stopped reading them, too. And when politics
look bad, I hesitate even more.
Sometimes I feel like perhaps this means the end of the attention
economy for me. Back to books?
Some news sources I follow online:
* @
[email protected] is the feed for the weekly paper in German that I am
subscribed to
* @
[email protected] for stuff about Russia, Ukraine and the USA
* @
[email protected] for civil rights online
* @
[email protected] for various strange things
* @
[email protected] by @
[email protected] for
independent news
As always, the problem is that I feel the news should be a bit like
taxes: Pay something and then read what you want. The payment models
sort of imply that you'd pay for all the subscriptions, which won't
work. Or they imply that you'd pay per article, which doesn't work
because of the credit card fees. No micropayment means that one or two
articles is already the equivalent of the whole subscription. And even
then, I'm not sure whether micropayments would sit well with me. My
current status is that I only pay for the newspaper but at a pro level
for CHF 590 per year and I feel that CHF 50 per month ought to pay
for all of my news.
Some days I think I should subscribe to a Swiss digital newspaper,
@
[email protected]. Just to support more diversity in a
shrinking ecosystem. But I don't know whether I can process the news,
to be honest.
That seems to be my main problem.
How do I process the news? 😥
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