I was having lunch with a friend of mine recently, and he remarked that of his friends he had, I was the closest to being a Republican and he wondered what news

I was having lunch with a friend of mine recently, and he remarked that of his friends he had, I was the closest to being a Republican and he wondered what news site I read. He was surprised to learn that my go-tos were generally to the left of what he read, for exactly the reason you describe. If a story is getting attention across the spectrum, 'the opposition' is always more likely to capture the facts that you might miss.