Critically, if we are persuaded by either camp, we will find most of the sources in that camp believable.
Then the easy solution is to not let yourself be persuaded by either camp and assume that there are a lot of flaws in the information environment on both sides.
Your approach is to treat news outlets like they are blackboxes. As I argued before, if you want to rationally read news you need to have models of how the news outlets you read operate.
For a lot of news it’s possible to understand the ground reality. If there’s a new law that gets proposed, you are not limited to what journalists write about it. You can actually read the test of the law and compare it with what journalists write about it.
Court cases end with the court publishing a document with their rulings. In science journalism, you can read the papers yourself.
Freedom of information request allow accessing a lot of government data to understand the ground reality.
Often facts get more clear over time. While it might be hard to understand that the New York Times mislead their readers at the time of the start of the Iraq war, it become more clear later.
Then the easy solution is to not let yourself be persuaded by either camp and assume that there are a lot of flaws in the information environment on both sides.
Your approach is to treat news outlets like they are blackboxes. As I argued before, if you want to rationally read news you need to have models of how the news outlets you read operate.
For a lot of news it’s possible to understand the ground reality. If there’s a new law that gets proposed, you are not limited to what journalists write about it. You can actually read the test of the law and compare it with what journalists write about it.
Court cases end with the court publishing a document with their rulings. In science journalism, you can read the papers yourself.
Freedom of information request allow accessing a lot of government data to understand the ground reality.
Often facts get more clear over time. While it might be hard to understand that the New York Times mislead their readers at the time of the start of the Iraq war, it become more clear later.