Whenever I try to #learn something that I come across about a current topic, I realize that it's very hard to come by reliable information. I'm not even talking about mis/disinformation. I'm talking about the fact that many #news organizations will put an "entertainment spin" to it. Instead of talking about the worrying rises in #flu and #covid rates, they'll tell you how this one hospital was on the brink of a collapse because of pediatric hospitalizations and how it managed not to do that...
Usually governments provide reliable information about for example diseases or catastrophes. If news organizations aren't proving reliable information about (some) current topics, one might argue that it doesn't provide reliable information about governmental issues like corruption in the government or how a government's actions is affecting its average citizens. In fact it's demonstrably true that most corporate news organizations dont provide reliable information about such governmental topics. It's sexier (more $$$) to talk about whatever some fringe Republican has said or what Drumpf is doing because there's drama there. There's not much drama in reporting about e.g. efficacy of certain homelessness prevention measures compared to other measures.
