The other thing you have to be aware of is the all too frequent move of the media to simply repeat (and occasionally embellish) the same story without doing any in depth research or verification on their own...(which used to be known rather quaintly as "reporting")...
I regularly read multiple news feeds and am aware of the political slant of each one. They all have their own slant and their editors compound that slant...
I watch everything from CNN to MSNBC (for entertainment purposes) to "mainstream legacy feeds (ABC,CBS,NBC) to newer stuff like Newsmax, to even (the horror 😱🙉🙈) Fox...
If it's a big story I routinely hit all of them then head to the internet outlets for their slant (AP, CNN, FOX WaPo, NYTimes, NY Post, WSJ along with whatever pops up on google) I consider myself both well read and well informed... I've left out my military feeds and overseas sources...
All of those sources have their own political slants both left and right (even some of the military ones) as long as that's factored in the mix I figure I've got a decent handle on about 50-75% of the real story...
I've become a bit of a cynic in my old age having read and watched this type of reporting for multiple decades....
