I’ll be honest, I don’t even want to read articles anymore. Its just crazy cabinet nominees every time. Wars happening. Nothing I can control. I just post something sarcastic or jokes in the comments. The only thing I care is if a hurricane is headed in my direction.
Y’all actually read all this shit? How does anyone have the energy?
I didn’t read your question but “yes”
But actually, I don’t for political stuff because it is so freaking depressing, and you can’t affect it much.
I love reading science articles though!
I always read the headline and if the headline is interesting I’ll read the article.
One thing I don’t do is voice my opinion about an article without reading it.
Sometimes. I’ll often read the comments to get the highlights, but I’ll also read the article if it interests me or when I need to know more details.
And let’s be honest: 90% of news articles don’t contain more relevant information for me than the headline.
“Politician said X” has almost never any effect on my life.
I just scrolled through the front page of Der Spiegel. The first 10 articles are speculations about campaign decisions, analyses of things already known, and opinion pieces of some mildly knowledgeable people.
Yeah, that’s mostly irrelevant. Yes, some background would be nice, but I don’t have time to read about everything that isn’t of consequence for me anyway.
Hell a lot of them don’t contain accurate information either. Especially AI slop.
Same here but with some tuning:
I read comments very carefully. If there isn’t a summary bot I don’t trust comments as true anymore. If the publisher prevents reader mode (firefox) or requires either a subscription or non-essential cookies: Keep your secrets.
Also, if the headline is too hard a clickbait, I skip it as well.
I read the headline, I read the discussion. If the discussion convinces me to read the article myself, I will. If there’s broad consensus, generally it’s not worth my time to confirm what I’ve learned already.
I do this for several reasons:
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Ads. Even with ad blocker the frequent text breaks are exhausting.
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Overeditorialization. I want the facts, not a narrative. I get why that’s the way the information is presented, but my time is limited and I’m not into it. Same reason I don’t really like (non-nature) documentaries
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Perspective. The author has their own unitary perspective, and I prefer to consume multiple perspectives on an issue so I can explore the problem/solution space.
If it’s short, data heavy, and plays nice with Simplified Mode then I’ll read it real quick, but the less navigation I have to do to obtain information the better.
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Just the headline for most things, especially now.
I read the whole shit more or less for 9 years, most others didn’t even read the headline and just thought it was fake news. It did me no good to be so hyper-informed. Why should I continue what I was doing when being hyper-informed about Trump just gave me more Trump? I’m good. I’ll read whole articles if it matters. For “Gaetz for AG” it doesn’t matter.
If the headline sounds interesting I’ll read the article.
Same, but replace ‘article’ with ‘comments’
Same
My conservative inlaws read headlines aloud like it’s a fact without reading the article.
And make up a scenario about the headline. Its like angry improve for distressing yourself.
I try to, when I have the time, but I don’t sweat it if I don’t, I just try to avoid forming too many opinions about the topic.
Also, a good chunk of the time I try, I get paywalled. Which I can usually bypass if I’m on PC, but that’s not really feasible on mobile.
Props to all the heroes copying the article into the post, or pointing out when the headline is misleading.
I don’t, I just try to avoid forming too many opinions about the topic.
The best way to handle most things in life. Do what you want, just always assume you know nothing about a topic.
If I’m going to comment then I read. Always seeing mfs asking questions answered in the article or raging about shit they imagined based on the headline alone. It’s embarrassing
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Or maybe people don’t want to click tracking link
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they want to seed a discussion on fedi ;)
Do y’all actually read articles or just the headline?
Both. I first read the headline (while taking it with an immense grain of salt due to, by my experience, the commonplace usage of clickbait/misleading headlines) to see if the article may interest me, then, if so, I read the article to either effectively fact-check the article’s own headline, or to actually get more detail on what the headline summarized — though, it certainly feels like it is more often than not the former. Sometimes, however, the headline, on it’s own, is enough, but that seems rare — logically, it is in a news company’s best interest to get people to read the article (if it is assumed that they get income from people reading the article’s content) so they would be incentivized to make the headline as provoking or nebulous as possible to maximize the probability that one will click on it.
Its just crazy cabinet nominees every time. Wars happening. Nothing I can control.
Personally, I believe that it’s, at the very least, important to be peripherally aware of what’s happening in the world, but one must be careful to recognize what they can and can’t control — what is worth fretting over and what isn’t. Inundating oneself with the knowledge of any number of horrible things that may have happened somewhere in the world in a given day is generally of no help to anyone and only serves to degrade one’s own mental state.
Y’all actually read all this shit? How does anyone have the energy?
The most tiring thing, personally, is fact checking. It is tiring to feel like the majority of my interactions with news articles that are shared are that of dealing with misleading claims and misdirected or misinformed reactions. It certainly feels like the majority offloads the scrutiny of data onto the minority.
Depends on the article. Political or most other real world news, probably gonna either just read the headline and any comments. If it’s something that interests me, I feel more compelled to read it, though.
the commenters didn’t read it either
I just read the comments.
I read the article if when I open the link, I am not immediately slapped in the face with ads that aren’t blocked by uBlock Origin, an ad block blocker, or a paywall. But I’m not also not reading multiple articles on the same exact topic just because they come from different outlets. 9 times out of 10, they’re exactly the same but with slight variation on verbiage because they all took the same original information from the actual original source and just re-worded it.
Sometimes I try, but I about as soon as the paywall pops up.
