Crow’s Feet Prompt
What We Need From Our News Sources
Tell the readers the demographics, and scope
When President Trump was elected I stopped watching television news, except for important, breaking stories. I had been sucked into the news vortex and the headlines were all screaming. Video made it worse — it was more immediate and stuck in my mind, and I couldn’t select what I absorbed.
News feeds
I read my news, and try to read a variety of sources so I get different points of view. I read “Al Jazeera” and the “BBC” occasionally and might scan “Fox News” for their take on an event. I subscribe to “The New York Times” and read the news feeds on websites. I subscribe to a couple of local newsfeeds, but the local mainstream newspaper, like many, is a shadow of its former self. For very local news, like my city or county elections, I follow news updates from the city and county. I might look up specific websites, like the “538” to read the latest polls on various political races.
News feeds like “Smart News” carry far too much celebrity news, which I can consume, and has even picked up some of my posts from this site and carried them — so I don’t trust them, particularly, since as a news aggregator they neither have a point of view nor ask permission nor pay.
