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hunter

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13. I blocked Twitter before Musk bought it simply because it annoyed me.
Thu Sep 7, 2023, 03:24 PM
Sep 2023

The signal-to-noise ratio was unacceptable to me. I avoid television news and opinion for similar reasons.

I'm not someone who is excited to know the "latest up-to-the-minute news" especially if it's something that does not affect me immediately or something I cannot possibly influence in any way, for example, the war in Ukraine. I'll leave the job of separating the wheat from the chaff to the journalists I trust.

I support honest thoughtful journalism with my dollars, not so much by my willingness to make myself a soft target for advertisers and propagandists.

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