u/Santiper2005

I’m very skeptical of news articles that make big claims based on “scientific studies” especially when said claims are often completely contradicted by the opposing side. I’m not part of the “do your own research” crowd, I put my trust in people who have dedicated their life to studying said things. However, as I’m just a layman, I can’t exactly look through hundreds of studies, evaluate each by their methodology, biases, recency, etc. etc. I just want somewhere to go that tells me the current expert consensus on a variety of issues i.e. climate change, economic policy and it’s consequences, technology, etc.

INTP - Insufferable pedantic nerds (I’m guilty of this too tbh)

INTJ - Pessimistic and thinks they understand everything

ENTP - Argumentative and non committal

ENTJ - Values themselves and others by superficial metrics

INFP - Manipulative… so manipulative

INFJ -  Pretentious and performative

ENFP - Latches onto radical ideas or beliefs on a whim with little evidence

ENFJ - performatively kind and sickeningly optimistic or idealistic

ISTP - Assholes with no imagination

ISFP - Lazy and weirdly full of themselves 

ESTP - Doesn’t understand personal boundaries

ESFP - Superficial and doesn’t think things through

ISTJ - Uncritically accepts what they already know instead of looking for potentially better options

ISFJ - Prude and weirdly strict with social norms

ESTJ - Lacks any sort of creativity 

ESFJ - Takes crazy logical leaps to make others happy

I’ve only recently took an effort to truly understand politics since I’m already 20 and should know what’s going on in the world and it’s been challenging all around, but what’s been especially challenging is deciding how to spend my time. I’m a busy university student, I simply don’t have the time to read like three view points on every article and story I read. I could spend an entire day just researching one story about a situation, only to find out the next day, there’s already 10 more stories that are very important and everyone is saying something different. This is especially nerve wracking when trying to understand certain dense situations like the one in Israel-Palestine situation, which is immensely complicated with everyone claiming something completely diffirent on every news story, each of which is apparently VERY important to understand the situation. It can be overwhelming to even know where to start.

This may be a bit of a vague question but how do you decide which news stories/topics to research further and which you can just view in passing and mostly trust? I’ve been having huge trust issues and am struggling to make up my mind on ANYTHING because I know how easily the average person can be manipulated by their news sources.