As a general rule, if you aren’t paying for it, it’s probably crap. Paid sources are just better-incentivized and better funded to do real reporting. The tradi

As a general rule, if you aren’t paying for it, it’s probably crap. Paid sources are just better-incentivized and better funded to do real reporting. The traditional newspapers (like WSJ, NYT, WaPo) still do quality reporting. People tend to have strong feelings about them because they disagree with the editorial side (often for good reason), but if you have the media literacy to know what’s news vs. what’s editorial, they are still quality sources.