The most important thing to do is trust yourself. Trust your intuition. Question just about every major "news story" that you hear on the MSM (main stream media). A majority of it is laundered and skewed to fit a certain agenda.

I woke up about 4 years ago. I stumbled across a few videos that made too much sense to me to ignore. So I kept digging and researching and looking into stories that seemed "fishy". I found too many holes and asked too many questions that the journalists covering the stories should have been asking, but weren't. Such as, where are the surveillance videos of the Sandy Hook massacre? They just invested in a brand new security system at the school. Cameras in every hallway and in every major classroom. Surely there must be something. After all, wouldn't they flaunt their "bad guy" all over the press? Wouldn't they play the tape over and over and over, saying "this is the bad guy. See his gun? See his evil?"
But no.
No video. Why? Because there was at least one more guy with him. Explain who was captured in the woods on the helicopter video. Explain who the cops had handcuffed on the floor when they arrived. They wouldn't slap the cuffs on a dead guy, so it wasn't Lanza. Where are there two men? Did the FBI show up and tell the local cops that "we got it from here" and then let the guys go? (probably)
When the local cops got on the scene, they said that they found the shooter with 2 pistols on his body. A SIG Saur 9mm and a Glock 9mm. Two pistols. So why is everybody saying that it was an assault rifle? They pulled the assault rifle out of the trunk of the car. It was never used. Right? But then why did the coroner say that it was the primary weapon? And if it was, why are bullets being found lodged in the bodies and not in the walls? A .223 caliber bullet would go straight through a little kid (sorry to sound so crude) and probably through the next kid and then into a wall. They're not 9mm.
COuld this explain why parents were not allowed to go into the school to see their child's body? Forensic "clean up"? What more did the forensic guy need to do that took 3 days? They found the guy, dead. And the guns. And the bodies. End of story, right? Why couldn't the parents go inside?
What was going on in there for so long?

Why isn't the media doing their job and asking these questions?
Because they're all puppets, too. They've got a hand up their ass telling them what to say. The local journalists are probably still good, because they have big dreams of the big story breaking and their fame for being the first to report it. But then their editor tells them to stop sniffing around. Becuase their editors boss calls them up and tells him that his local station needs to stop sniffing around. Or else.

Know this: Everything you are allowed to see on the television is part of the system. It's part of the theater. The propaganda. The lies. The deceit.

The internet is the last place for people to get real news.