I’m a software engineer, and one chestnut I’ve heard (and subscribe to) is “Missing documentation is better than incorrect documentation, because the latter can

I’m a software engineer, and one chestnut I’ve heard (and subscribe to) is “Missing documentation is better than incorrect documentation, because the latter can lead you astray in serious ways.” I think this same logic applies to news as well, for the reason you describe. Added to which, the news is a business model which increasingly earns its living off manufacturing outrage (not by making its viewers more informed and worldly). The same can’t be said of history books, which is why I agree with one of my sibling commenters here, who recommends swapping most news with reading history.