Resisting Our "New Dark Age"

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[Pink Moon on April 24, 2024, photo by Karen Swallow Prior]

(RNS) — It’s an election year. Perhaps you’ve heard?

You couldn’t escape the news if you tried.

But perhaps you — or we — or I — might try to take in a bit less of so much news.

I’m trying. Not in an attempt to put my head in the sand or be a less responsible citizen. Quite the opposite, in fact.

I am what in today’s parlance is called a “knowledge worker.” I’m also a recovering news junkie, one whose addiction goes way back before the 24-hour news cycle and endless social media feeds.

Indeed, I come from a newspaper family. I don’t mean I’m descended from media magnates like William Randolph Hearst, Michael Bloomberg or Rupert Murdoch. No, I mean my grandfather, father and uncles all delivered newspapers for some portion of their working lives. I’m a third-generation daily reader of local, print, home-delivered newspapers. And most days, I watch the evening news, local and national, almost religiously.

Until recently …

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