Thanks for saying. Sounds like another piece I will skip!
While I am generally interested in justice around these parts, I generally buy the maxim that if the news is important, I will hear they key info in it directly from friends (this was true both for covid and for Russia-nukes stuff), and that otherwise the news media spend enough effort to do narrative-control that I’d much rather not even read the media’s account of things.
This seems like a bad rule of thumb. If your social circle is largely comprised of people who have chosen to remain within the community, ignoring information from “outsiders” seems like a bad strategy for understanding issues with the community.
Yeah, but that doesn’t sound like my strategy. I’ve many times talked to people who are leaving or left and interviewed them about why and what they didn’t like and their reasons for leaving.
Thanks for saying. Sounds like another piece I will skip!
While I am generally interested in justice around these parts, I generally buy the maxim that if the news is important, I will hear they key info in it directly from friends (this was true both for covid and for Russia-nukes stuff), and that otherwise the news media spend enough effort to do narrative-control that I’d much rather not even read the media’s account of things.
This seems like a bad rule of thumb. If your social circle is largely comprised of people who have chosen to remain within the community, ignoring information from “outsiders” seems like a bad strategy for understanding issues with the community.
Yeah, but that doesn’t sound like my strategy. I’ve many times talked to people who are leaving or left and interviewed them about why and what they didn’t like and their reasons for leaving.
Didn’t get that impression from your previous comment, but this seems like a good strategy!