Is The ‘News’ In ‘Apple News’ A Misnomer?

“As I said, it’s early days still. If you are into magazines, the value is clear. If you are looking for breaking news, or want a highly tunable experience, stay tuned.”

Dave Mark

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My Thoughts

Despite it’s name, I have never viewed Apple News as being the place for ‘News’ … at least not ‘current News’. That said I have long separated the idea of ‘commodity news’ from ‘post news analysis’ . I believe that ‘the news’ that a plane crashes is something everybody will cover. Not paying for it. But why it crashed it. If some Wall Street ‘king pin’ dies - some will cover it - others won’t … it is likely not of broad interest. Magazines have never been my source for time dependent news. BUT they do fit into my ‘news analysis’, ‘long form reads; and ‘interesting things I didn’t know’ categories … not to mention that good magazines do attract good writers and are therefore a good source of quality material.

Embarrassed? ‘Not’ Would Be My Guess. Sadly.

”Trump has made at least 9,451 false or misleading claims since taking office. Trump is making roughly 22 false or misleading claims a day – up from his average of nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day during his first year in office.”

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”Trump is reportedly telling people he is “saving” Judge Amy Barrett for Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat.”

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”Fox and Friends” described Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras as “3 Mexican Countries

Matt Kiser - WTF Just Happened

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Oh - and

”Trump doesn’t think that young men should be forced to pay for general healthcare that includes pregnancy coverage, that they should pay only for what they need.”

David Crook

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On Specialization

”A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ”

Robert Heinlein

On Immigration

”We all came in on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

On Hunger

”The belly is a rascal, it doesn’t remember how well you treated it yesterday, it’ll cry out for more tomorrow.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

On Forgiveness

”We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

Robin Sharma (maybe)

No - not Plato

On Decisions

”Generally speaking, in making a decision we have before us a large number of alternatives, none of which is demonstrably more “rational” than the others. We fall back … on motives of another kind, which are not “rational” in the sense of being concerned with the evaluation of consequences, but are decided by habit, instinct, preference, desire, will, etc.”

John Maynard Keynes

On What Counts

”What you do with yourself, just the little things you do yourself, these are the things that count.”

R. Buckminster Fuller

Living The Dream

“Tip: before you loosen your grip on your shitty job, go read Michael E. Gerber’s excellent book “Awakening the Entrepreneur Within”. If you do, you might decide that your idea for a business isn’t that great and no amount of willpower, grit or fortitude is going to make that sucker fly.”

Julian Summerhayes

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My Thoughts

I constantly drift into spaces of contemplation when I read posts from Julian. He opened with “I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard the above expression used as a substitute for life” … going on “Trust me, though, no one I’ve met is living the dream.” Telling it like it is. I will drop some links to some other posts sitting in the que shortly.

On Grammar

”Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.”

Richard Chenevix Trench