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Few if any conspiracy theories appear in the major national dailies. Sure you can definitely quibble with the Post, NYT or WSJ on many issues but on average and outside of the editorial pages they are very good.
But yeah, reading MSM news without looking at social media discussions of those news can address at least 80% of the problems described by the author. The information explosion is irreversible and the Internet allowed higher parallelism and lower latency in consuming information compared to TV/Radio/Newspapers. Some degree of exhaustion is inevitable unless one trains themself to properly detach and disconnect on the regular.
It made me realize how basically no "breaking news" is important to my personal life. Reading high-quality reports a few hours once a week is enough to stay more informed than constantly discussing breaking news on Twitter and is far better for my well being.
You can get it through PressReader[1] and if you're in the UK it's very likely that your local library card will give you free access to it.