Me too. Yeah some of it gets pretty out there. I can sift thru it and agree with what holds water. Just want to be informed.
And lately alot of 'out there' stuff has come true which is why I look at a wide field of information.
Most mass media 'news' is just a flare to tell me what I should dig into on my own, realizing that every source has its bias. COVID taught me that there are ample people who claim to be scientists who play fast and loose with their methodology, so I want to read the journal article and assess their findings myself.
Sometimes, even the most improbable findings have merit,if you are willing to follow the lead far enough. FOr example, when CNN and others made fun of Trump talking about sunlight and disinfectants against COVID, it turns out that pre-pill form antibiotics (1940s), piping UV into a vein for limited exposure of the blood to the UV was a method of killing off pathogens and helping the body build antibodies ("sunlight"), while inhalation of nebulized dilute Hydrogen Peroxide was an effective killer of respiratory pathogens as well. Despite the rancor and mockery, there was something to both. The research was there, in the NIH library, for any who stopped ridiculing long enough to read it, but that was not the goal of the media which were attacking the messenger rather than looking at the message. It was imminently clear that panic was the goal of the mass media, not an answer to the problem.
As for Cable news, that has been gone from this household for over a year. I don't need the parroted repetition of buzzwords and catchphrases, from multiple sources, at a minimum of twice on the hour. That's indoctrination, not news.
