I found you post very interesting.
Try it. It is a simple cheap experiment. There is such a thing as “verifiable reality,” or “self-evident truth.”
The media wants you to have to go through them — as the exclusive gateway of truth — which we know is self-serving, for whomever pays them to propagate their (marketing) message. That’s what the old media used to do — anoint those experts, and suppress, censor, banish anyone else. Does that have a familiar ring?