How to Quit the News While Still Consuming the News
The current national emergency provides us a rare opportunity to balance our news addictions against a life saving “need to know”.
I have stopped watching/listening to President Trump’s press conferences. As a responsible citizen and an on again, off again political writer, I prefer to be effectively and adequately informed. A willfully inept, un-informable President, incapable of short form, coherent truth telling, is an unreliable source of information.
What am I doing instead? I live in New New Jersey and I listen to my Governor’s daily press conferences. A resident of the northern portion of the state, I also listen to press conferences conducted by the nation’s de facto, disaster-time-Commander-in-Chief. These past few weeks New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been a straight shooting, well spoken, no nonsense, regional and national leader.
I also follow credible cable and network news organizations; NBC News, MSNBC and CNN. I frequently check my state, print news affiliate, NJ.com and I read the digitized New York Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Beast and, from time to time, The National Review. For a macro perspective of all things, I often turn to the good folks at Quartz.
I care about the markets and the economy and have been known to frequent CNBC and Bloomberg TV.
