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this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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I don't know anybody who uses tv news as an actual source of information either. I haven't even watched news on tv in over a decade now myself. Nowadays, use social media and news aggregators as a starting point. I find social media in particular is useful because people often add context and analysis around the stories, so when you read the article you get a much better understanding of the content. For example, a lot of factual information has been published in western mainstream media regarding the state of the war in Ukraine, but unless you learn to parse it out from all the fluff then it's easy to miss. So, if you just read these articles uncritically you end up with a completely wrong impression of what's happening despite the information being technically there.