We are similar in that respect. I stopped watching television around 1998, and very likely for the exact same reasons you did.
And I do much the same on issues I find important.
For example, it was important to me to understand the injustice done to General Michael Flynn, and there was so much disconnected information swirling around, that I decided to gather all the information out there I could find and put it together in a chronological and understandable format, listing the date, event, people involved, links, and a summary of each one as in the example of the first few rows shown below (Here is a link to the full PDF document I created: LINK: Timeline of the Governmental Abuse of LT. General Michael Flynn)
Boy. When I put it together like that, what dropped out was plain to see. Not unclear or confusing any more.
I had to do it that way, because I felt that it was a milestone event...and it was. And when I put it together ike