You should at least keep up enough to make informed choices when you vote.
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Yup, unfortunately that only happens every 4-5 years...
There are other elections throughout the year... Midterms at the federal level, and often state and local elections too.
Admittedly how it works in the US, but I'm sure still applies in other countries, maybe not everywhere.
I used to live in a country where they would just bunch them all together: local, country, EU all in one day. Kind of sad, because it gives the impression that your vote only counts once in a few year, as I said in my previous comment. No midterms.
I avoid it as a rule. Anything important I will hear about and can research further.
The middle ground is to put a defined limit on news consumption, like 5 minutes per day. That's enough to stay aware of major events but not so much that you'd necessarily get wrapped up in excessive worrying about irrelevant items. NPR, the BBC, and probably others, offer 5-minute audio news briefs updated hourly. These are available to stream on demand like a podcast. I wouldn't recommend listening hourly but the point is they're up to date at any single time in the day, which you might choose as your daily news blast. Then just tune out, literally and figuratively.
CBC as well, for the 5 minute hourly podcast. Listening to that once a day is honestly more than enough for me.
Kind of reflects my approach to news nowadays.
I try to keep in touch with the local news, my neighborhood, my town, my province, my country, my continent. Anything beyond that I follow from far away.
Try ground news.
How does this help with changing my news consumption to being healthier?
Edit: Change of words.
It helps by letting you know what you’re reading is bias or not.
Indeed, very good site!
Also try Double Down News
Because we like click bait headlines and over dramatization?
But seriously, I'd never heard of it and just checked it out, and I can't get past the ridiculous headlines while claiming to be unbiased.
The titles are extreme because the topics they discuss and are trying to point out are extreme.
These journalists and writers are criticized for pointing out outrageous, extreme and unbelievable events in the world that are actually occurring.
Yet they would also be criticized for NOT pointing out outrageous, extreme and unbelievable events in the world that are actually occurring.
Double Down News is an actual counter point to the current establishment and they are not afraid of pointing out difficult truths to actually inform people to the dangers of the world rather than in ignoring, playing down or white washing current events in the world.