Stop Doom-Scrolling: How to Find Quality News That Actually Informs You
Because of social media, access to news has been greater than ever before. But, that also means more noise. Every opinion possible on a given news story can be shared and consumed with only a few taps on a smartphone. Quality over quantity can also apply to news. When you are searching for news that’s the most informative, it’s best to stop doom scrolling.
How to Lessen the Noise in News
News is everywhere, and more so than ever before. When social media became popular, it broadened the horizon, allowing users globally to consume any news story, even beyond where they live. Before, those who wanted to keep up with the news would watch local or national TV news stations, listen to the local radio stations, or read newspapers and magazines. Now, any Internet user can search for any topic and find endless news articles. This level of noise can very quickly cause news fatigue.
To lessen the noise, news consumers need to determine what they want from these stories. Some news consumers are looking for the most credible source to tell a news story. In those cases, they need to understand how they can find reliable information that lacks the bias language most news uses to keep the audience engaged.
Follow Topics, Not Entertainment
Some news outlets, even the most consumed national news outlets, can be guilty of using shock factor and other urgent language to catch a reader’s attention. Click-bait headlines can draw users into an article, even when they present information out of context. Right from the title, users are drawing conclusions without seeing how all sides were impacted by an event.
On a smartphone, this becomes the habit known as doom-scrolling. Doom-scrolling refers to the addictive habit of scrolling quickly through a lot of content, increasing dopamine to the brain while not receiving all, or even accurate, information on any given topic. In terms of the news, doom-scrolling can lead readers to jump to conclusions too quickly, as the news outlets have to skew the story a certain way to evoke emotion in the readers. This keeps them interested and engaged more than just reading the facts.
The problem with entertainment over information lies in truth. Readers eventually lack trust for the media because of this practice, even if it engages them in the short-term.
Subscribe to a Single New Source
What if there was a way to have a single subscription, where all the news reported could be trusted? With the advent of AI, this has become a closer reality. Unbiased news subscriptions use AI to remove the bias from any news articles, reporting only the facts and information necessary to tell a story to the readers.
This means that instead of sifting between several different news outlets to cross-reference the facts of a story, readers can open a single source and trust that what they are reading has already been filtered for accuracy and fairness to all sides involved. A single trusted subscription simplifies the entire news experience for news consumers. It removes the fatigue of determining what to read and who to believe, while replacing it with a straightforward, reliable routine.
