Even when stories aren’t made up there seem to be a clear focus on generating attention, because our attention is the real product on free news. That’s had a social media effect on news, and much like our Instagram profiles, it’s so heavily edited, that truth has lost its place, even when people aren’t intentionally lying. Obviously there is a difference, but I think it’s getting smaller by the minute.

This is exactly why I pay for news. Because fake or not, my attention is worth more to me than what everyone of the free media outlets are giving me in return.

I have a subscription to a news paper, that only comes out once a week and only has paid content. By only coming out once a week, I get the added benefit of its content being the digested sum of what actually mattered. If something dramatic happens, that I can’t wait to read about, I’ll turn on public service.

The only area where I’m not doing this is in tech, but tech news aren’t really important.

I do feel sorry for the author, I know the guilty learn not to feel guilty, but lying for a living must be absolutely terrible in the long run.