How Should We All Receive Our News!

In today's world, there are numerous problems all threatening to destroy the country, the entire free world, and the human race simultaneously.  We are in the middle of the worst worldwide disease pandemic since at least the polio pandemic of the early twentieth century.  That pandemic coupled with gross mismanagement of the crisis by numerous world leaders has created the worst worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression.  Russia, under the totalitarian government of Vladimir Putin, is working on a daily basis to attempt to seize control of all the territory it lost in the breakup of the Soviet Union and to establish itself as the great overseer of the entire world.  America is without a legally, duly elected president of the country based on the treason of Donald Trump under the oversight of Vladimir Putin whereby an American presidential election and the White House were literally stolen via a campaign of internet based sabotage.  And, to complicate all these problems beyond belief, there is a majority of the population of America and much of the rest of the world which has fallen prey to a vast campaign of lies, misinformation, prevarication, obfuscation, and deceit from both Russia and the usurped White House.  That campaign of lies and misinformation is frequently accepted as fact by a sizeable percentage of the American population.  These gullible people accept at face value anything they see or hear being disseminated from the White House.  One of the most frustrating factors of this whole set of problems is the fact that these people have no understanding of the difference between real, documented, substantiated news stories and blatant lies and propaganda.  I propose a few simple steps which would be productive for every American and, in fact, every human to follow with regard to how, where, and from whom they get their news.  

1. Never accept as factual any news story which you cannot verify through a reputable third party story source no matter what the original source may be from which you received the story in the first place.  
2. Never restrict yourself to only one or two sources of news whether they be television networks, radio news networks, internet websites, or speeches from public figures viewed or listened to on any and all means of mass communication.
3. Always use at least three sources of news on any given day.  Watch a major news network's daily prime time broad cast every day.  The major news networks are CBS, NBC, ABC, and National Public Television.  All other news sources on television are less reliable than any of these four and several of them are part of the misrepresentation, lies, and propaganda purveyors.  Read at least three page one news stories daily from three separate daily newspapers on their internet news sites.  If you are in your vehicle at the top of any hour, listen to the radio news from a major radio news network. The same four television news networks listed above also function as the most important and most credible radio news networks.  
4. Create a schedule whereby you watch television news daily from a different source every day.  In your rotation of television news sources include all three major American television news networks, your local public television news station, and on a rotating basis insert a once weekly newscast from other news networks such as the British Broadcasting Corporation, Al Jazeera, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and several other of the less well known, and sometimes less honest news casts which are reportedly questionable at best.  This will give you a wide ranging view of local, national, and international news and the sources which provide it. It will also teach you the difference between real, verified, documented news reports and propaganda being painted as news by questionable sources and outright liars.  Generally, when a majority of the major news networks and national newspapers agree on the key elements of a story, you can trust the statements they make about the story. 
5. Create a list of the major newspapers of the nation and world and use that list to vary the three sources you read an article from each day.  Look for newspapers which have consistently been rewarded for the honesty and truth of their reports.  Choose those which have won awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, Associated Press, and United Press International awards for the quality and honesty of their reporting.  Such newspapers include the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Miami Herald, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe.   
6. Also read occasional news stories from magazines such as Time, the Atlantic, The Nation, and U. S. News and World Report.  Also include some visits to news websites such as The Guardian.
7. Most importantly, never accept as fact any news story, from anywhere, on any topic unless you have seen it verified from another source.  I realize I am repeating myself here but this is the most important thing you can do to know that you are seeing, reading, and understanding honest, accurate news.
8. As you learn more about the difference between truth and propaganda, create your own list of the liars, propagandists, and fakes.  Call them out publicly in your posts of social media and in face to face contacts with anyone you know or meet who is repeating fake news stories which you have verified as inaccurate.