How does one become a "well-informed person" nowadays?

I was taught to read multiple news sources as a start, but with the WSJ and NYT virtually unreliable, quite frankly I don't know what to do other than rely on Twitter and do my best to separate facts from psyops.

What is the alternative?

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Indeed. Reminds me how few years ago it was skills in internet search that were vital. Now it’s source curation.

Time to skill up 🫡

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More informative of recent times than a lot of newspapers, tbh.

Those who don’t learn history something something.

Edward Gibbons
The Fall of the Roman Empire

Plutarch
Parallel Lives

Aggregation of sources.

The Guardian, BBC, Bloomberg, New York Times. 

Twitter used to be okay, now it’s unusable.

I still use legacy media as a source of what’s going on, but then use social media as a way to independently verify reporting. NYT says “world on fire” but then look to see if the rest of the world is saying the same.

Fickin lul at thinking twitter is better than nyt or wsj.

The term you want is “media literacy” and chatGPT can teach you how to learn the skills you need.