Just read people you can trust. Why are you giving yourself all this busy work?

Just make your own tree of material to read. You should have a couple dozen writers/journalists you admire, look at who these people read then start reading those people, then you repeat the cycle.

Don't waste your time reading anything new, most new things are bad. Most ideas we struggle with, are ideas we have been discussing since the written record was invented out of necessity.

Anything new worth reading will assuredly make your way to you if you are at all connected.