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     Professor C. John Sommerville, author of How the News Makes Us Dumb:  The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society, saw this coming two decades ago, in 1999, when "tweeting" was still something only birds did:  "If news were just one of many things we read each day, it wouldn't have the same impact.  If we would read science, the classics, history, theology or political theory at any length, we would make much better sense of today's events."

-Ben Sasse, Them:  Why We Hate Each Other—And How To Heal

Ed. Note:  A short cut to all that reading would be to just check in regularly with these nice folks