Absorbing the content produced by generalist American corporate news outlets will leave you with a highly biased and inaccurate view of the world you live in an

Absorbing the content produced by generalist American corporate news outlets will leave you with a highly biased and inaccurate view of the world you live in and is thus best avoided entirely. Also, there's few people as insufferable as those who religiously read the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, etc. and thus consider themselves 'well-informed'. The confidently brainwashed intelligentsia is a sight to behold. Specialist outlets of various sorts (energy news, etc.) are the place to look if you want decent information that's reliable, but these are often run on a subscription model, at least for a good fraction of their content. If you want a more in-depth picture, you may have to read a book, or better, several books, as book authors often disagree about what's important or have their own ideological agenda. In the case of weather, emergencies, disasters, etc. (where you need reliable information in a hurry), it's better to have direct links to the local weather and emergency sites than to rely on a news outlet interlocutor.