{"id":5323,"date":"2018-09-24T18:35:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T22:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2018-09-24T18:41:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T22:41:57","slug":"day-1-of-paid-only-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/09\/24\/day-1-of-paid-only-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 of paid-only news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, what a wild news day! Or at least I think it was: In my first full day of <a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/09\/23\/why-im-trying-a-you-get-what-you-pay-for-media-diet\/\">relying only on news I pay for<\/a>, my brain felt considerably less plugged into the usual whirlwind of Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crazytown, but I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say I felt any less informed. A few notes from my paid-only news diet experiment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One thing I am definitely <em>less<\/em> informed on is the meta-narrative of how news develops.<\/strong> I got the news alerts that Rod Rosenstein was likely out and then checked the NYT and WaPo a couple times and saw that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s staying until at least Thursday. I missed what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing was a whipsaw on Twitter in between.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>While I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m missing much news (yet), I do feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m missing <i>the experience<\/i> of the news.<\/strong> Early on Twitter offered me the thrill of not just being in-the-know but something that felt like participating in a breaking news story. I now know that sensation is one of the illusions conjured by social media platforms, but most importantly, I don&#8217;t miss it. I&#8217;m OK reading the news rather than living it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really out of practice in finding news after growing so accustomed to news finding me.<\/strong> The day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s big stories found me thanks to alerts and homepages (and also: newsletters\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI signed up for a bunch of newsletters from the publications I subscribe to). But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really tough to find the more specialized news that I care about. For instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/23\/business\/media\/the-markup-craig-newmark.html\">news of the launch of The Markup<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/vox-media-on-pace-to-miss-revenue-target-as-digital-advertising-disappoints-1537742167\">a report on Vox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s revenues<\/a> first reached me as links sent by friends. Partly I&#8217;ve lost the muscle memory of knowing which page of a printed newspaper to go to or cycling through a few bookmarks or homepages. But it&#8217;s largely because news apps aren&#8217;t built for browsing: I couldn&#8217;t find\u00c2\u00a0those stories displayed anywhere in the \u00c2\u00a0WSJ and NYT apps and had to resort to searching. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, what a wild news day! Or at least I think it was: In my first full day of relying only on news I pay for, my brain felt considerably less plugged into the usual whirlwind of Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crazytown, but I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say I felt any less informed. A few notes from my paid-only news &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/09\/24\/day-1-of-paid-only-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 1 of paid-only news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-1nR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}