Starting today’s daily reads with a photo related to one of the stories (photo is from somewhere west of McAllen, TX)
-Illegal Immigration: The Trump Effect — not a surprise. Walls don’t address the root causes of immigration.
-Bring Back the Weekly Newspaper — a slow news movement
paying attention to negative, alarming information is natural and can even be useful if one was in an immediate threat environment—like, say, the savanna during the Pleistocene era when our attention systems were evolving. It just doesn’t work to our advantage, though, in a mediated environment where the incentives are structured differently. I’d almost want a newspaper that reported last week’s news, and only that. Whatever didn’t survive as news probably isn’t worth reading about anyway.
