>>17375How do you take your soycaf?
The headlines you see on /r/news and /r/worldnews are summaries of articles published by reporters. Each contain roughly 25 words, and you skim maybe 15 of them at a time.
The articles that reporters publish are summaries of press releases from a variety of sources (corporations, universities, other news outlets, etc). Each contain between roughly 500-800 words on average, and even a small outlet produces 15 articles a day.
Side-note: Even when a news outlet investigates something itself, what you're reading isn't the immediate result of that investigation; you're reading a summary of a press release passed from the investigative department to the reporting department.
Press releases are summaries of vast swathes of data, each built on hundreds if not thousands of hours of work. Each press release only contains around 300-400 words, but even a small news outlet receives upwards of 500 press releases a day (that's a conservative estimate btw).
'What's going on in the world' is a fire-hose of information that no single person can hope to grok. Several layers of organization and hundreds if not thousands of people are required to taper that fire-hose down to a drizzle suitable for individual consumption.
But people aren't free, and last I checked you weren't paying Reddit to find quality news articles, Reddit wasn't paying news outlets to produce those articles, news outlets don't pay corporations to release unbiased press releases, corps don't pay their PR teams to tell the truth, and corps sure as heck don't fund studies to produce bad results.
If you want unbiased news, you're soykaf out of luck. It doesn't exist, and it never existed. And if you think you can write some magic program to condense the fire-hose down objectively, you're going to run into two big problems:
First, you don't even have access to the fire-hose. You won't have access to most press releases, unless you work for a news agency or are paying big money for a subscription. You sure as soykaf don't have access to the data behind those press releases, for obvious reasons.
Second, even if you did have access to the fire-hose, the vast majority of that information is about as interesting as evaporated soycaf and half as easy to drink. Because you don't read the news to learn about the world, you read the news to get mad or happy about the state of the world. You read the news because even though you don't care about what's happening in the world, you still want to read something that validates your beliefs. Because humans need more than food and water to live. Humans need entertainment, sex, love, play, and above all else, validation.
And so the reason you're finding /{r|v}/news boring isn't because they're suddenly biased, it's because their biases no longer align with yours. They've changed their soycaf blend, or you've changed your tastes, and now there's nothing there that you want. Chances are, there's nowhere that sells the blend you like. So unless you want to spend the rest of your life grinding beans, heed my advice:
Stop pretending to give a shit, and find your validation someplace else.
