Sorry, but I don’t care what’s happening in the USA, or the Middle East, or anywhere for that matter. I don’t care about the latest celebrity death. I don’t. Care. At. All. I don’t care about your politics unless it affects me, my family, or friends.
Media is manipulation.
I care about what I can see around me with my own eyes, and I care about programming and computer science. I care about my own small community I live in. I research what I care about.
I don’t need to stay upto date with anything else.
Neither do you, don’t be a sheep. Most people are sheep. Unplug yourself and live life undistracted.
Why do you need to stay up to date?
For money?
Why will keeping “up to date” bring you money? If you do the same as others do, you’re going down well-trodden paths. You’re not differentiating yourself or your mind from others if you consume the same media.
I’ve made money from software, I build software others consider impossible to monetise (extensions).
I did that by not “staying upto date” and by consuming and building different to the majority.
Forge your own path and don’t consume media. 99.9% of it is noise. Even hacker news is mostly noise.