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Austria's 'Wiener Zeitung' newspaper goes to print one last time
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Does anyone read a weekly printed news publication? If so, which and why?
I was nervous to post this in ~news, because it's more of a question than a story, but here goes. I'm looking to turn down the temperature, pace, and volume of my news consumption habits, as well...
I was nervous to post this in ~news, because it's more of a question than a story, but here goes.
I'm looking to turn down the temperature, pace, and volume of my news consumption habits, as well as limit how much time I stare at a screen (I do that enough professionally). I've recently experimented with subscribing to fewer, higher-quality news sources and getting them delivered via RSS*. This works pretty well, but I'm still left looking for something even slower. Something like a weekly news publication, which is delivered once a week in a print format that I can read away from a screen.
I've subscribed to Sunday papers in the past, but it's too much and there's a lot in it - I think I'm looking for a little .. less. A slimmer publication, fewer pages. Almost as if someone selected the top five to seven stories covered on the Wikipedia current events page in the week, then wrote a few thousand words apiece on each. Something I can make it through with my coffee on Sunday mornings in a few hours.
Does anyone do this or have recommendations? If so, what do you read and how would you assess that publication? I think I've tried a fair number in the past, but I will take anyone's suggestions. Thank you so much in advance.
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*I use Reeder for macOS / iOS - which is great btw, and it's shocking how much of the modern web still supports RSS. Highly recommend folks reconsider RSS in general.38 votes -
Which newspapers/magazines do you read and why?
I recently obtained a access to a TON of different magazines and papers from Europe, US, UK and a few from Australia and New Zealand but I have no clue about the quality of stuff outside my native...
I recently obtained a access to a TON of different magazines and papers from Europe, US, UK and a few from Australia and New Zealand but I have no clue about the quality of stuff outside my native country so I would like to hear some suggestions.
Which ones do you read and would recommend to others and why?
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National Geographic reportedly lays off its last US staff writers
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US gay magazines and shopping by mail before Stonewall
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Should we be going back and editing games for content that doesn't fit with a modern viewpoint?
Thinking about the recent incident where the devs for Skullgirls (current devs, not original devs) went and changed a bunch of artwork and other content for the fighting game, which released in...
Thinking about the recent incident where the devs for Skullgirls (current devs, not original devs) went and changed a bunch of artwork and other content for the fighting game, which released in 2012 after being Kickstarted. Aside from removing the sexualized imagery of an underage character, probably a good call, what about the other things they've decided are in 'poor taste' in 2023?
Should we be going back and editing games, or even movies, tv shows, and books to reflect more modern sensibilities? Is a game like Skullgirls even worth preserving its original content?
My opinion is no, unless it's something that is now illegal, I don't really enjoy the precedent that's been set lately where we go back and correct past mistakes in media. However, I also see the argument about removing media that may encourage racist or sexist thinking or put down minorities, but is it useful to see the media as it was and see how far we've come? Is that useful enough? Should only the original creators make that decision?
Just thought this was interesting. Tag as desired.
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My retro recommendation -- "Hero", starring Dustin Hoffman
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What was the best piece of content that came out as a result of the pandemic?
What's the best thing you've read, watched, heard or other that was created as a result of the pandemic. In your opinion of course.
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Canadians will no longer have access to news content on Facebook and Instagram, Meta says
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Towards a theory of the content creator
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‘Don’t Look Up’ director Adam McKay wants to win the climate information war — with memes
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Vice, decayed digital colossus, files for bankruptcy
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Secret room inside popular game contains independent journalism forbidden in Russia
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Speed trap | Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.
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Finnish newspaper hides Ukraine news reports for Russians – secret room in first-person shooter game Counter-Strike to bypass Russian censorship
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Fox settles Dominion defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million, avoiding US trial
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Former US President Donald Trump charged: How the world reacted to his arrest
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Alternative facts - How the media failed Julian Assange
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The system that fuels media negativity
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How social media shapes our perceptions about crime
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US local news outlets need tax breaks to help save democracy, says advocate
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BuzzFeed says it will use AI to help create content, stock jumps 150%
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How Finland is teaching a generation to spot misinformation
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New Jersey requiring students to learn 'media literacy' to fight 'disinformation'
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Top Down News
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Former WarnerBros executive Jason Killar on the streaming wars and the future of media
@Jason Kilar: The @WSJ asked me to write about the streaming wars and the future of media. Here is the essay + a Twitter thread which covers a few of the main points. https://t.co/BzRQIEAZMY via @WSJ
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CNN stole my video
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World Cup organisers have apologised to a Danish television station whose live broadcast was interrupted by Qatari officials who threatened to break their camera equipment
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How "Unser Mitteleuropa" is building a network of right-wing media in Europe
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As the midterm elections approach in the US, does Finland have the answer to fake news?
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman discusses how he wants every subreddit to be its own media company and he wants to see money being exchanged from users to users and users to subreddits
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How life has changed for Afghans since the Taliban takeover
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What are some of your favorite melodramas?
From Wikipedia A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas...
From Wikipedia
A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Melodramas typically concentrate on dialogue that is often bombastic or excessively sentimental, rather than action. Characters are often flat, and written to fulfill stereotypes.
Contemporarily, we use the word melodrama for narrative works that go to great lengths to induce certain kinds of emotion at all costs, to detriment of the internal cohesion of both plot and characterization, often in a manner that some consider cheesy, corny, or excessive. All soap operas are melodramas, as are many movies and TV shows. Some melodramas are cheap and fail to achieve their effects, while others can be more rich and even sophisticated. In a way, many mainstream stories are, to some extent, melodramas, even when there are other, more salient genres. There's melodrama in action, crime, and science fiction.
Here are some examples of what I consider more or less contemporary melodramas:
- The Young and the Restless
- Grey's Anatomy
- The Color Purple
- Downton Abbey
- Dawson's Creek
- Avatar
- Gone with the Wind
And here are some stories that are not melodrama, but contain a whole lot of it:
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The philosophical guide to software piracy
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The hunger
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The irresistible force vs the ironized object
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The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence
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Does anyone else feel like Tildes gets less effective at surfacing new stuff the longer you're on it?
I notice this primarily with the YouTube videos. I've started to notice that the videos I see posted in here I have already had recommended to me by YouTube. And I realize it must be because when...
I notice this primarily with the YouTube videos. I've started to notice that the videos I see posted in here I have already had recommended to me by YouTube. And I realize it must be because when I watch a video here, the YouTube algorithm decides I'm interested in that kind of thing. So, functionally, by posting and interacting with content in Tildes we are tuning the various algorithmic recommendation feeds that we interact with to view us all similarly.
It's just an interesting side effect I noticed and some food for thought about the effectiveness of a link aggregator or discussion forum at surfacing novel, interesting content we might not find otherwise. In part, this could just be an effect of Tildes being kind of small and having lots of self-selection biases for its user population. Perhaps if it was more diverse we'd be exposed to more things that break the mold and recommendation algorithms won't be able to pin it all down as easily. In fact, we may be able to use this effect as a way to test the breadth and diversity of content and types of people a site is attracting.
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The first standard to assure a photo’s authenticity has been created
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BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
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Chris Wallace announces he is leaving Fox News, joining CNN+
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We lied to you and we'll do it again
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Where are all the Black teen comedies?
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The Verge is updating their public ethics policy "to be clearer in our interactions with public relations and corporate communications professionals"
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The Guardian is trying to intimidate Eoin Higgins into retracting his coverage of transphobia in their newsroom
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CNN, spilled milk, and why any of this matters
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Former US president Donald Trump launches 'TRUTH' social
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Epistemology of the Internet — and of traditional media
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“Hacker X”—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself
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