If you want to avoid fake news, why not pay for real news? Buy a subscription to the NY Times, or any other of the major newspapers or newsmagazines.[1] Did y

If you want to avoid fake news, why not pay for real news? Buy a subscription to the NY Times, or any other of the major newspapers or newsmagazines.[1] Did you know the journalism industry is in a tailspin, and many professional reporters can't find jobs because people feel they can find the same information for free from blogs and on facebook? Newspapers aren't perfect, and bias in unavoidable, _but_ I don't see too many blogs paying copyeditors and fact checkers to double check their work. The good newspapers also take responsibility for their work and protect their sources. I find it sad that as a society we are abandoning the press, which is an important check and balance on the other institutions in society. Instead we prefer our dopamine squirts from swiping our facebook feeds on our phones, and being fed targeted stories that confirm our biases. I find it a sad irony that a generation who often likes to sneer at older industries, and disrupt them, thinks they have replaced the free press with something 'better' just because it is delivered via a cellphone. They are mistaking the medium for the message. The information quality is lower, but if it feels new and shiny, it must be better right?... [1] Yes I know most of these sources offer their content for free online, but I'm suggesting to pay for it anyway. You know support them before they disappear completely.