> I know what's going on in the world.
This doesn’t really square with what the rest of your comment says. One would at least expect you to have mentioned regular reading of high-quality newspapers / magazines in order to justify this claim.
This doesn’t really square with what the rest of your comment says. One would at least expect you to have mentioned regular reading of high-quality newspapers / magazines in order to justify this claim.
I’m thinking The Atlantic, Financial Times, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Wall Street Journal, etc. Each varies in their biases and you grow to recognize them as you read more but they’re generally reliable sources written by serious people.
There are of course also smaller, local papers worth reading. There are also papers I consider of lesser quality that still have some good journalists working for them —- but you have to actually read the byline and know who’s writing rather than focus on the brand. An unfortunate number of people don’t get past “NYT said X” and “National Review said Y”
At a certain level of sophistication one comes to realize the publications you listed are just as "garbage" as the pre-graduate level productions the parent avoids.