With so many voices in the digital age, it's vital to know who you can trust - to put the facts in context and to give comprehensive analysis of what's going on.
And if you get a laugh out of it too, all the better.
Every day our cartoonists at the New Zealand Herald tackle the big stories of the moment.
Covering everything from politics to sport, business to entertainment as well as news from around the country and around the world, Rod Emmerson has taken pen to paper to give us his take on the events of 2021.