The thing about trying to follow the news, rather than following news coverage, is that correcting for bias requires: 1. Reading/viewing multiple source, from

The thing about trying to follow the news, rather than following news coverage, is that correcting for bias requires: 1. Reading/viewing multiple source, from different countries. 2. Reading against the text, using claims from one biased source to contrarily interpret another source, but also holding those claims in suspicion, allowing for the second source to potentially disprove or at least recast what the first source wanted you to know. 3. Watching for things like subtext, timing of stories, _absence_ of coverage, distribution of sources etc. 4. Often, reading languages other than the one you're most fluent in - at least to some extent. 5. Getting used to the most significant and controversial stories being a mess of not just conflicting coverage, but personal and collective accusations which are often at least half-true even if they are a distraction, having to live with how some authors combine conspiracy-theorism or zealotry on some points with decent journalistic work on others... --- Bottom line: It's frustrating, it's time consuming, it draws you away from your social surrounding who either know nothing about things or are repeating shallow slogans they heard in some mainstream news show.