Watching the news nowadays is a fascinating experience.
One full hour of wasting your time.
Crashes, violence, gossips and weather. Maybe one important story.
You can scan all that in less than two minutes online.
The thing is that since many people still do it, we are ok with it.
This is crazy. Something becomes worthless way before it’s gone.
Defending it is perpetuating its uselessness.
Bottom line: Trust your predictions more than your audience, because they won’t tell you when they leave you.
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Beyond one hour of watching, we now have MULTIPLE news channels devoted to24-Hour “News Coverage.”
I prefer to get my news updates from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. I don’t always agree with what they are saying, but I feel they mistrust and judge EVERYONE equally!
I agree you can scan the news that fast. The problem is I spend another hour reading things that the “real news” doesn’t find important enough to report.
It’s cool to get news faster, but are we really shifting our time to something more productive anyway? If not, why is it so important to get news faster?
Oh, the news thing was just an example, but to answer your question:
I don’t relate getting the news with productivity, and even if I did, the time that we save could be put to ANY other use, even if it’s not productive. It’s not that it’s important to get news faster, it’s just that there’s no point in doing it inefficiently.
If you enjoy news but don’t want it to take a lot of your time, try http://www.newser.com.
News at its most scannable.
Maybe I’m just too into multi-tasking, but the only time I’m tuned into news is while I’m cooking dinner. I cannot just SIT and watch the news – plus I’m finding it more and more stuff I don’t want to hear about anyway!
Well isn’t that the truth. No news is good news for me. If something major is going on I’ll be told about it by someone. Complete waste of my time to focus on anything negative. If something great is going on I want to know about it’s rarely in the news.