> That homework was really what drove home for me that the news is very cherry picked and I basically stopped watching after that. I feel like the right lesson

> That homework was really what drove home for me that the news is very cherry picked and I basically stopped watching after that. I feel like the right lesson to take from this is that all data sources are coming from a certain perspective and motives, and so you can choose what you want to care about. Perhaps you don't care about any of that, which is a fine and normal choice. But "this source is biased so I won't consume it" leads, really, to consuming nothing (EDIT: if you go too deep down this route). I think that consuming varying grains of salt is helpful in the general case. ("This source is biased in a specific way that makes me disregard this person's credibility on topics I care about" is a subtly different argument that is valid of course)