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Former news junkie here. The GP is correct. Unless you are making concrete decisions based on those conflicts on a day to day basis, there is little to gain following it on a day by day basis.

He says wait a week. I actually used to wait a month - at the beginning of the month I would catch up on all the news. Compared to when I would follow things on a daily basis, I got more accuracy, and less haze. When you go through your RSS feed all at once for a month, you'll see how crazy often things are inaccurate in the first few days - something I didn't notice until I looked at it from on high.

The truth of some things may never get clear. Those are in the minority. For most events, it does by a large margin.




> When you go through your RSS feed all at once for a month, you'll see how crazy often things are inaccurate in the first few days

You may also enjoy browsing old microfiches.


Not sure if that was sarcasm, but the thought does tickle me!

Thankfully, I've rid myself of the "must follow news" curse. But yeah, looking at decades old newspapers it's fun to see the stuff there.




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