Thought-provoking Internet contents

Where do you get your knowledge about the world and its happenings? My TV has not been on for months, so all the news for me come from Internet. Unlike TV (even considering its many stations), Internet offers extreme variety of views and opinions. You just have to be able to find the Internet resources that matter, the ones that make you think.
 
Here is the beginning of a recent post  on Mercola’s website: “In the U.S., there are more prisoners than farmers. In fact, according to Solutions journal the U.S. housed about one-fourth of the prison population worldwide, which amounts to nearly 2.3 million people.”

And here is the beginning of an AOL article from the same date as the post above: ”Live With Kelly ... and Jerry? The race is heating up for Kelly Ripa's permanent co-host, and one actor may have the role on lockdown.”

I would most definitely prefer reading the posts on Mercola’s site than these on AOL. This does not mean that I agree with all the contents Mercola has to offer (in fact, half of his posts are at odds with my views). However, the posts on his website are thought-provoking, there are not shallow and meaningless. They deal with real life, real problems and struggles.
 
How did our media become so estranged from the reality? Did the slippery slope of the lowest common denominator lead to this result? The same way the food industry feeds us with heaps of junk food, the media feeds our minds with junk facts. Both junk food and junk information are equally destructive to our body and mind.

Actionable
Filter your informational flow to sources that provoke thinking.