{"id":5325,"date":"2018-09-25T18:34:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T22:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2018-09-25T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T22:34:38","slug":"day-2-of-paid-only-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/09\/25\/day-2-of-paid-only-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 of paid-only news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After all of yesterday&#8217;s excitement, today felt downright tranquil. Here are a few notes from my second 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><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>It&#8217;s really quiet out there. Maybe too quiet.<\/strong> With no high-drama break news stories \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as well as, for me, a busy day of meetings and running around the city \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I experienced something I haven&#8217;t felt in a while: a slow news day. And on days like this, it&#8217;s really tough to get a sense of &#8220;what&#8217;s going on right now&#8221; through the outlets I follow. App homepages aren&#8217;t updated all that often, and they all carry the same story.<\/li><li><strong>I&#8217;m reminded that there is more to newspapers than news.<\/strong> With little in the way of major breaking news, I did find myself reading more deeply through my NYT app. The feed feature, which allows you to follow topics and columnists, does a decent job (though I wish it had more topics) and surfaced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/24\/arts\/television\/mr-inbetween-review-fx.html\">a review of <em>Mr. Inbetween<\/em><\/a> that I probably wouldn&#8217;t have read otherwise while going to the World section reminded me of the old joy of the foreign news feature that ran on A3 when I discovered this interesting story about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/25\/world\/asia\/vietnam-bachelor-gay-lesbian-contestants.html\">a same-sex romance on Vietnam&#8217;s version of <em>The Bachelor<\/em><\/a>.<\/li><li><strong>My inbox is drowning in mediocre newsletters.<\/strong> After signing up for so many different digests, I feel like I&#8217;ve been spammed. Most of these newsletters are just automated story feeds, no better than opening an app or visiting a homepage.<\/li><li><strong>I&#8217;m gonna need an RSS reader.<\/strong> Maybe it&#8217;s just news detox, but the urge to check &#8220;the latest&#8221; when I have 30 seconds of downtime is still strong and right now it&#8217;s a bit of an unscratchable itch. I think what I am going to do is build a Feedly profile that only has feeds from the publications I pay to read and see if that does the trick.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all of yesterday&#8217;s excitement, today felt downright tranquil. Here are a few notes from my second day of relying only on news I pay for. It&#8217;s really quiet out there. Maybe too quiet. With no high-drama break news stories \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as well as, for me, a busy day of meetings and running around the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2018\/09\/25\/day-2-of-paid-only-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 2 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-5325","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\/p2skW4-1nT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325","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=5325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}