>This is my biggest pet peeve with news in general. Why does a high school paper have more rigor in terms of citations than the average post from a major news organization?

Because news is not meant to inform, it's meant to indoctrinate and keep you passively under the thumb of the rich.

https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo...

>It makes digesting political news all but impossible.

The question is do you know the upper classes know your brain doesn't see the world as it is, you can be told the facts and not reason to the right conclusion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ