Reading the News: Separating Fact from Interpretation

News arrives with fact and interpretation mixed together. If we absorb it without noticing the boundary, we can begin mistaking someone else's interpretation for our own opinion.

First separate what happened from how it is being told. Noticing that the same event changes colour with its narrator creates distance between us and information.

More than knowing quickly, what matters is finding the right distance. Quiet reading may be a small form of self-defence for the mind in an age of information overload.