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99.99% people who read news don’t read it critically, so their “decisions” are completely at the mercy of what the very impressive propaganda machinery that we call news. Any control people feel they have by making opinions based on reading news is an illusion.

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I think the answer is reading more varied sources of news, not less. But for sanity's sake, reading less might be good.

Nope. Being able to see through the countless subtle ways the news manipulate and misleads you and to gain any meaningful insight requires so much effort and critical thinking that it is simply not practical for vast majority of people.

I firmly stand by my opinion that "Stop reading news" is the best advice that can be given to most people interested in being better informed about the world.

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