Why is it important to critically analyze sources? Why are scholarly sources more appropriate for academic research?

Why is it important to critically analyse sources? Why are scholarly sources more appropriate for academic research?
I believe that we can’t just trust anything and every piece of information especially in the context of academic domain. Not only me but also majority of us realise that one shouldn’t trust all the information that we come across. Irrespective, whether we are observing something on the news channels or analysing a message on blogs. Essentially, we draw parallels with our values and experience in life to make comparatively fast judgments regarding the efficacy of the knowledge...