The news cycle actually doesn't go that fast for it to be hard to keep up with the two main competing narratives & the primary sources. Mainly because the mains

The news cycle actually doesn't go that fast for it to be hard to keep up with the two main competing narratives & the primary sources. Mainly because the mainstream media cherry picks what it wants to cover then runs it into the ground. I keep the news on all day on a monitor as I work and unless it's a day like yesterday you'll hear the same headline repeated over and over all day with the same facts. Now if you want to be an expert XYZ in any of the fields that touch those subjects that's another story, but not being an expert in something never stopped people from posting as one before.