degringolade

Looking across the Columbia from around Lyle

One of the nicer things about road trips is that it gets you away from the “news”.

I have been looking at my sources of news lately and I am becoming increasingly dissatisfied with what I am seeing. I rely on a couple of folks who seem to have a life even more shallow than mine. News aggregators like naked capitalism are pretty good, but they do become one trick ponies after a while. The “news” presented seems cherry picked to fit a predetermined narrative.

I suppose that is part of the game. They aren’t so much reporting the news as advancing a narrative of events that fits the theoretical model that resides in the brainpan of themselves and their readers.

But what really comes first here? The mindframe of the reader or the business model/mindset of the “news” provider?