Breaking News(feeds)
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02/11/21 • 38 min
The news is like your shadow: you can’t get away from it and it is DARK. In this episode, we tackle wrangling our newsfeeds and ask “how do we stay informed without losing our minds?” We talk through how and why we pick our news sources, the boundaries we set around our news consumption (and whether they work), and how getting your news from social media is like reading the review before you see the movie. Colin suggests some aspirational rules for posting articles on social media. Anna argues that part of staying sane is not engaging with content that really upsets you even if it’s “newsworthy." I mean really, is The Bubble always a bad thing? In our Troubleshooting segment, we give tips for how to check the quality of your sources, stay mindful of how news affects you, and ways to make sure you’re getting your info from diverse viewpoints. Then as always, we end with some Internet Gold.
Connect with us at @themoreuscroll on Instagram & Twitter, and check out our webpage. Have any internet sanity tips? Any topics you want us to cover? Email us at [email protected]
Tips & hacks from our Troubleshooting segment:
Where do your favorite news sources fall on the Media Bias Chart?
Here are some tips for telling real news from fake news
Internet Gold of the week:
Anna: Writer/Humorist R. Eric Thomas
Colin: "Palm Springs" on Hulu
The news is like your shadow: you can’t get away from it and it is DARK. In this episode, we tackle wrangling our newsfeeds and ask “how do we stay informed without losing our minds?” We talk through how and why we pick our news sources, the boundaries we set around our news consumption (and whether they work), and how getting your news from social media is like reading the review before you see the movie. Colin suggests some aspirational rules for posting articles on social media. Anna argues that part of staying sane is not engaging with content that really upsets you even if it’s “newsworthy." I mean really, is The Bubble always a bad thing? In our Troubleshooting segment, we give tips for how to check the quality of your sources, stay mindful of how news affects you, and ways to make sure you’re getting your info from diverse viewpoints. Then as always, we end with some Internet Gold.
Connect with us at @themoreuscroll on Instagram & Twitter, and check out our webpage. Have any internet sanity tips? Any topics you want us to cover? Email us at [email protected]
Tips & hacks from our Troubleshooting segment:
Where do your favorite news sources fall on the Media Bias Chart?
Here are some tips for telling real news from fake news
Internet Gold of the week:
Anna: Writer/Humorist R. Eric Thomas
Colin: "Palm Springs" on Hulu
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Connect with us at @themoreuscroll on Instagram & Twitter, and check out our webpage.
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Connect with us at @themoreuscroll on Instagram & Twitter, and check out our webpage. Have any internet sanity tips? Any topics you want us to cover? Email us at [email protected]. Access the transcript for this episode here.
Tips & hacks from our Troubleshooting segment:
Want to purge your Twitter followers? Try the TokiMeki app!
Internet Gold of the week:
Anna: @SUBPARparks on Instagram
Colin: Future Fonts, get in on the ground floor with new fonts.
The More You Scroll - Breaking News(feeds)
Transcript
ANNA (00:20)
Welcome to THE MORE YOU SCROLL, a podcast about trying to stay sane on the internet. I’m Anna Van Valin
COLIN (00:27)
And I’m Colin Foy. In today’s episode we’re going to talk about...the news.
ANNA (00:33)
The news is like your shadow: you can’t get away from it, and it is DARK.
COLIN (00:38)
We’ll talk about where we get our online news, how we engage with it, and h
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