<story><title>I Hate the News (2006)</title><url>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>I, strangely enough, agree with Most of what Aaron says. And I&amp;#x27;m the founder of a news company.&lt;p&gt;I worry about this attitude on a macro scale, but it&amp;#x27;s hard to argue with on a micro one. I spend most of my day following what&amp;#x27;s going on in the world, and it hasn&amp;#x27;t added much value to my life. But I worry about everyone not caring. Not because that would kill my company (I started it because I hate news in its current form too), but because there are times when public outrage changes things. It&amp;#x27;s like voting - my vote doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, but on aggregate it&amp;#x27;s everything.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m convinced that the goal of a good news publication should be like Google - to get you in and out the &amp;quot;door&amp;quot; as quickly as possible understanding what you need to know. We&amp;#x27;re rebuilding everything around that. A publication one can consume in thirty seconds with the most important stuff, ruthlessly curated and fact-checked. No entertainment gossip or puff pieces or PR pitches. (To get it as an email sign up at &lt;a href=&quot;https://grasswire.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;grasswire.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m looking forward to reading what others think on this subject.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sparkzilla</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think you agree with Swartz at all. You used an article that explains why someone does not read the news to promote your news site. According to the article, Swartz wasn&amp;#x27;t looking for an alternative way to consume news: he decries the news industry as a whole. I&amp;#x27;m all for self-promotion on HN when it&amp;#x27;s relevant, but Grasswire appears to be exactly the kind of thing Swartz would not be interested in.&lt;p&gt;If you were selling books or long-form journalism I could understand your post, but as it stands it&amp;#x27;s blatant self-promotion. And I say that as the founder of a news company.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Hate the News (2006)</title><url>http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>I, strangely enough, agree with Most of what Aaron says. And I&amp;#x27;m the founder of a news company.&lt;p&gt;I worry about this attitude on a macro scale, but it&amp;#x27;s hard to argue with on a micro one. I spend most of my day following what&amp;#x27;s going on in the world, and it hasn&amp;#x27;t added much value to my life. But I worry about everyone not caring. Not because that would kill my company (I started it because I hate news in its current form too), but because there are times when public outrage changes things. It&amp;#x27;s like voting - my vote doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, but on aggregate it&amp;#x27;s everything.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m convinced that the goal of a good news publication should be like Google - to get you in and out the &amp;quot;door&amp;quot; as quickly as possible understanding what you need to know. We&amp;#x27;re rebuilding everything around that. A publication one can consume in thirty seconds with the most important stuff, ruthlessly curated and fact-checked. No entertainment gossip or puff pieces or PR pitches. (To get it as an email sign up at &lt;a href=&quot;https://grasswire.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;grasswire.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m looking forward to reading what others think on this subject.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ta82828</author><text>Asking me to sign up before I&amp;#x27;ve even looked at the page is annoying (to me).&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tabcloseddidntread.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tabcloseddidntread.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>