When I open up my web browser on my computer each day, I always go first to a news site—just to see if anything is on fire, so to speak. For a couple years now, that site has been CNN.com , not because I thought the people there had particularly good news sense, but just because the print stories were all laid out in well-sorted order, easy to look through.
The redesign of the CNN site has promoted all kinds of videos and junk features over that news, I can’t find the headlines I want to glance through any more. So I need a new site. What do readers here use for their news? if you’re going to visit only one general news site a day, which is it?
Dear Reader,
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War abroad. Socialists on the rise. AI upending human life. Endless uproar online. The modern attention economy doesn’t want readers — it wants users enslaved to the tyranny of the present.
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