RE: I Can Hardly Read The News Anymore (Too Many Crazies)
I cut the cord about a year ago, I picked up a Leaf antenna but it doesn't work so I'm pretty out of the loop with news. I used to check DrudgeReport daily more for tabloid style news, and also I think regardless of if you love them or hate them they are awesome at writing click baity type titles which really drive traffic so I think we can learn a lot from them as markters. A site that's not mobile optimized and looks like it was made with that netscape builder but which does 6 mill plus views per day is pretty incredible.
I've gotten way off topic though, I agree with you the news only brings you down and now that we are living in a 24 hour news cycle everything is magnified. While there's probably not any more bad stuff happening today than at other times its shoved down our throats through 24 hour news networks. our phones, yahoo homepage, etc.
I try to avoid the news and politics as it only brings me down and depresses me. I have guns and dogs so if some apocolypse comes and I'm not kept abreast by the news so be I'll be aaaight lol.
Seriously though, I subscribe to targeted reddit groups so I get news on business and marketing and stocks and cryptos, the rest of the news I don't really need nor do I really care for.
For some reason everytime I start going to DrudgeReport I start forgetting to go there again and end up back on Yahoo for a quick skim over what is going on. I will have to check it out again over there.
Yeah alot of there stuff is tabloidish but I recently heard a great podcast by Ben Settle where he was talking about ugly websites and that was included amongst Craigslist and some others. I mean the site creates none of it's own content, its ugly, it's not mobile optimized so your having to finger scroll all over your phone to read it, all of those things would traditionally be a deathblow to a site but they do crazy numbers. They write really catchy titles and they tend to bring to light articles or stories which are important but often dont' get attention. I realize not everyone likes it since it has a conservative slant but again they don't create their own content they just link to others.
The success of Drudge Report has been interesting for sure.
Dude did you see the ridiculously long reply I left you on your other post? I then turned it into an entire blog post and @ned happened to be up in the middle of the night and saw it right away and replied. It was kind of funny actually. I think he is probably still over in Europe because STEEM Fest just ended and I was up at 3:30am or something stupid. LOL