![What If We Had a Nutrition Label for the News? | PBS
“…We’re also living in an age where we’re overwhelmed daily by the amount of information and content seeking our attention. The thought of measuring what we consume probably feels like too heavy a burden to all but the most intrepid a graduate student, just as tracking our daily physical activity was little to no fun before personal metric tools like NikePlus and FitBit came to market.”
[The team] is embarking on a project to build the tools to empower the individual, and the news providers themselves, to see at a glance what they’re getting and what they’re missing in their daily consumption. We seek to provide a nutritional label for your news diet.
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What If We Had a Nutrition Label for the News? | PBS
“…We’re also living in an age where we’re overwhelmed daily by the amount of information and content seeking our attention. The thought of measuring what we consume probably feels like too heavy a burden to all but the most intrepid a graduate student, just as tracking our daily physical activity was little to no fun before personal metric tools like NikePlus and FitBit came to market.”
[The team] is embarking on a project to build the tools to empower the individual, and the news providers themselves, to see at a glance what they’re getting and what they’re missing in their daily consumption. We seek to provide a nutritional label for your news diet.
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