This is just a suggestion, but it might be useful to stop thinking about news reports as "the news report says X is real and true", because that's not what most

This is just a suggestion, but it might be useful to stop thinking about news reports as "the news report says X is real and true", because that's not what most news reports actually say. The text used usually reads like: "An unnamed source says blah blah", and "Joe Smith, a retied auto-worker, says blah blah blah", or "In response, a spokesman for Large Company, Inc. says blah blah blah blah", and so forth. Bloomberg (probably) isn't insisting that the story or the denial is true or false. They repeat the facts that other people have said. Often those facts are true; often those facts are false. Thinking about it this way helps me make sense of the topic. Maybe I'm weird.