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News is always biased. A more interesting question is, do you need news to be unbiased, or even, do you need any news at all?

I highly recommend reading "Avoid News" from Rolf Dobelli from 2010 [1]. This essay was published long before the problem with fake news. I stopped reading the news for 10 years now (except Hacker News and some sports) and I've never had the feeling that I missed something that was important. As a positive side effect I never have to think what kind of bias the author of the news article has, because I never read them.

[1] - https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf




First time I hear of this essay. I needed to read that, thank you!




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