Technology

If you're not opposed to digital, then maybe you could set up an RSS feed reader to just update weekly. Or maybe you could just subscribe to weekly newsletters. Wouldn't want you to get a paper cut.

Try the magazine 'Delayed gratification'

It's a current affairs magazine, but where the 'current' is delayed by 3-6 months, so they can write a proper analysis and not a live feed of minute updates

I subscribe to two newspapers. My local weekly paper (which is actually owned by our large statewide newspaper), and the state "business" paper. They both cover topics I'm interested in although the quality of reporting in the business paper is better.

On a separate note, if you don't support your local print media, it will go away. The demise of local news outlets, throughout the US anyway, has been ongoing for a long time now. That has not been a positive development.

Reading a physical newspaper is lovely. Highly recommend.

I still like print media. My local paper is shit, though. I don't mind paying for an online subscription to some of the major paywalled media sites, though.

If something is worth knowing, it's worth having a journalist distill it down to the main points. I can't stand TV news anymore, because it is all 10 seconds sound bites sandwiched in between long stretches of nothing going on.

How about an e-book reader for books and news websites with turned off notifications, which you can just check for news like one time a day or a week depending on your addiction level?

I think that's a good idea, and you might consider a subscription to a news-adjacent magazine, like The Atlantic, Salon, Vanity Fair.

One of the things that I do is organize my Freetube subscriptions into interest categories. Motoring, Academia, Whistler (the Simon Whistler Empire of Channels is pretty darn good), some others. That way, I can go put information into my head without it being every single news outlet video clip.

I also pick exactly one place to interact in comments sections, and right now that is fediverse. All other internet comments are dead to me.

Someone mentioned Libby, which I used before I didn't realized they did magazine subscriptions, and that they are free and legal.

I'm trying out subscribing to some of these. including tech life news, and wired. Something like this where it's updated weekly with new news stories, but you have to wait to a certain time point to access is particularly what I was looking for, this might work out without having to use the newspaper.

I use Apple News but there are plenty of other ways to just stream current events without comment sections to suck you in. As mentioned, RSS readers. You can borrow magazines and news papers on Libby as well.