There’s so much so-called “news”, but most of it is just noise. In this situation, it seems easiest to either A) get consumed by it, trying to follow everything and reading every “he said what?”-piece posted or B) become more or less apathetic and avoid news altogether.
To be able to make proper choices and help move things in the right direction, B) is not an option, as you need to understand current events to at least a minimal level, but A) leaves you just as clueless, overflowing with useless information, with a heavily worn-down ability to be source critical, not remembering where you read any given “fact”.
So how do you keep up to date with current events? Have you found a good way? Am I mistaken in my above assessment?
C) Accept that perfection is impossible and do your best to stay informed but keep the information faucet at arms length. No sense in knowing everything if you sacrifice everything for it. Will you make mistakes because of it? Yes. Will it matter? Probably not. That last part is less true if you’re not emotionally intelligent enough to accept your failures and make up for them. If you have a decision you know matters ahead of time spend the extra time to investigate the options. Time management and resource delegation is more important than knowing everything.