How To!: Unbreak the News
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🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
About five or six years ago, host Amanda Ripley started noticing that her normal news diet left her feeling depleted and depressed. She tried mixing up her news habits, even avoiding it for awhile, but nothing helped. It felt like a shameful secret. Shouldn't journalists love consuming the news? She began to wonder, is it me....or is it the news itself? On this episode of How To!, the first of two parts, we'll hear from several of our listeners who feel the same way. We'll also talk with Nicole Lewis, Senior Editor of Jurisprudence at Slate, and a longtime reporter on the criminal justice beat; and David Bornstein, co-founder/CEO of the Solutions Journalism Network, and former contributor to the New York Times' Fixes column. Together they'll discuss how the news became so broken, and how we can put it back together again.
Resources:
Fear of Rampant Crime Is Derailing New York City's Recovery by Fola Akinnibi and Raeedah Wahid
I stopped reading the news. Is the problem me — or the product? by Amanda Ripley
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| 1:01.1 | Hello, this is Christine and I live in Traverse City, Michigan and I'm calling in response to a question post at the end of one of their podcasts |
| 1:12.0 | asking how does the news make you feel and |
| 1:15.9 | Boy this question really struck the chord |
| 1:19.2 | The news makes me feel paralyzed |
| 1:21.2 | There's so much going on that I would like to |
| 1:25.3 | Do something about get involved but I don't know how |
| 1:32.5 | Well Christine you've come to the right place. This is how to I'm Amanda Ripley |
| 1:38.5 | This episode today is very close to my heart about five or six years ago |
| 1:43.2 | I noticed that when I was doing my normal news consumption diet every morning reading a bunch of news before I even started the day |
| 1:52.5 | I felt depleted afterwards. I felt demoralized. I had trouble getting things done |
| 1:58.7 | So then I started moving it to the afternoon and then evening after dark like a vampire and thinking maybe |
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