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The news, at its best, is often an indulgence, a relief, an escape from one’s own troubles, a flight from the mundane. News is not a civic chore. In fact, to treat reading the news as a duty is to treat ice cream like mustard greens–to believe readers must be tricked into eating it, and thus guarantee that they rarely will. 最好的情况下，资讯通常是一种放纵、放松，让人从麻烦中解脱、逃离平凡。阅读资讯不是一项公民义务。事实上，像对待义务一样对待资讯，就好像对待芥菜一样对待冰淇淋，认为读者一定是被骗才吃芥菜，从而确信他们几乎不会主动去阅读资讯。 I’m going to propose that we should read news sites as ice cream–not as an obligation, but for stimulation, escapism, and even righteousness. At the same time we must admit to ourselves that–far from being a duty–news in heated times (and in the age of T witter) can often represent a full-tilt compulsion, and thus a habit to be judiciously managed. 我建议把浏览资讯网站看成是吃冰淇淋，不是履行义务，而是寻求鼓舞、逃离，乃至正义。同时，我们必须承认，身处激烈变革的时代（尤其是在推特时代），阅读资讯和履行义务相距甚远，读者往往是全面被迫接受，因而，阅读资讯作为一种习惯需要谨慎管理。 This new avidity and readerly sense of purpose began about a year ago, during the psychic upheaval of the presidential primaries, with the repeated shocks to our society’s manners, morals, and politics. The work of “being informed”–so long preached in social studies classes–now felt like the opposite of work. You didn’t have to force yourself to read the news. You had to force yourself to take a break. | 
