It sure is easy to portray your country as successful, clean and beautiful if you don’t allow any free press to contradict you.
It sure is easy to portray your country as successful, clean and beautiful if you don’t allow any free press to contradict you.
I think most humans have a certain desire to gossip, probably a side effect of us being social animals. I can imagine that gossiping can be somewhat beneficial if you live in a tribe or small town.
With our way of life shifting to large cities in which you hardly know your neighbour, and digitalization making sure we regularly see these celebrities, I can see how that might trick our brains into caring about their everyday lives.
I like to look at who owns a news source and which country it is operating in to get an idea how reliable it might be.
It is also worth looking at the rethoric: do the headlines seem clickbaity? Do the articles cover more than one side to a story?
I also look at the kinds of stories a news source covers, and whether it seems like they push some sort of agenda from the things they choose to report on.
But yeah, I have come to find a bunch of sources I trust, and that I go to for news.