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If you never follow news (or haven’t for a decade or longer), it’s difficult to get a read on what is going on in the world or in your country, politically. That isn’t necessarily wrong, but it means you don’t really understand the environment you live in. Getting a better understanding is my main motivation for following the news. Mind you, I’m not in the US and for the most part don’t follow US news outlets.

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I don't watch or read news, and I feel pretty knowledgeable about my environment. I feel that if I actually engage in my community I am much more plugged in to my environment than if I try to read about it on the news.

By “environment” I don’t mean the local community, but the general social, political and economic mechanics on the nation scale and planet scale. I.e. how the human world you’re living in works and evolves, which in turn has local repercussions.

> By “environment” I don’t mean the local community

Neither do I.

If you think you're learning about social, political, and economic mechanics on a global scale from the news, then I implore you to keep consuming. I've never learned anything from the news that I couldn't have learned talking to someone else who watched it instead.

Ah, so you actually do follow the news! I wasn’t particular about the medium.

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