<story><title>No news is good news</title><url>https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/all-news-is-bad-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>I have been a very strong adherent of this philosophy for over 30 years.&lt;p&gt;There’s an adage, “there’s nothing as worthless as yesterday’s news”.  Which led me to wonder, “was it even worth knowing yesterday?”&lt;p&gt;I realized the solution was a low pass filter.&lt;p&gt;I first switched to a seven-page newspaper (CSM) delivered through the mail.  I realised the editors had to figure out whether it would still be interesting by the time it arrived and important enough to take up space in the paper.&lt;p&gt;I soon switched to a weekly newspaper (The Economist) and monthlies.  I haven’t looked back.  The nice thing about a paper like the economist is remained relatively small (few pages) so had to make the same class of decision as the CSM, rather than expand the paper.&lt;p&gt;I also have an RSS list of trade journals and such that I skim once a week, reading the odd title that looks interesting.   Most of the time it’s only a handful of articles.&lt;p&gt;As for the high frequency stuff and stuff outside my bubble: I still talk to people and so I hear about stray stories.  I do find it interesting that I have yet to have anyone bring up the Ukraine situation.  At all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragontamer</author><text>&amp;gt;  I do find it interesting that I have yet to have anyone bring up the Ukraine situation.&lt;p&gt;Speaking of &amp;quot;weekly&amp;quot; discussions, the Ukraine situation has been brought up in my weekly Church prayers since it started.&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, if it a current event that the Priests make 2 or 3 &amp;quot;intentions&amp;quot; for (in the Catholic mass, the prayers that occur after the Homily but before the preparations), its an incredible event. In many situations, the words are vague so that it applies to as broadly as possible (ex: there usually is something about wars and disasters), but Ukraine specifically is brought up in those prayers in my experience.&lt;p&gt;Which makes sense, the suffering and pains of that country are the greatest seen in many decades.&lt;p&gt;--------&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking, the intentions are specific to the parish community (pray for X who died last week) and local. Sometimes, a &amp;quot;sister parish&amp;quot; from another side of the world get their intentions emailed to our Church (ex: a hurricane that affects Haiti will be brought up, because our &amp;quot;sister-Parish&amp;quot; is in Haiti, so their &amp;quot;local&amp;quot; issues are brought up in our prayers as well. My current Parish doesn&amp;#x27;t have a sister-parish, but my last one had one in Haiti). For a global event to be brought up in specific terms (more so than just &amp;quot;prayer to end wars&amp;quot;. But a specific &amp;quot;prayer to help the people of Ukraine&amp;quot;) is pretty rare.</text></comment>
<story><title>No news is good news</title><url>https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/all-news-is-bad-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gumby</author><text>I have been a very strong adherent of this philosophy for over 30 years.&lt;p&gt;There’s an adage, “there’s nothing as worthless as yesterday’s news”.  Which led me to wonder, “was it even worth knowing yesterday?”&lt;p&gt;I realized the solution was a low pass filter.&lt;p&gt;I first switched to a seven-page newspaper (CSM) delivered through the mail.  I realised the editors had to figure out whether it would still be interesting by the time it arrived and important enough to take up space in the paper.&lt;p&gt;I soon switched to a weekly newspaper (The Economist) and monthlies.  I haven’t looked back.  The nice thing about a paper like the economist is remained relatively small (few pages) so had to make the same class of decision as the CSM, rather than expand the paper.&lt;p&gt;I also have an RSS list of trade journals and such that I skim once a week, reading the odd title that looks interesting.   Most of the time it’s only a handful of articles.&lt;p&gt;As for the high frequency stuff and stuff outside my bubble: I still talk to people and so I hear about stray stories.  I do find it interesting that I have yet to have anyone bring up the Ukraine situation.  At all.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coffeefirst</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s interesting about this is you picked:&lt;p&gt;1. Extremely high quality publications.
2. In a controlled manner.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;no news&amp;quot; at all, it&amp;#x27;s a healthy relationship to quality news.</text></comment>