I prefer trying to find news on my own whenever I do. I just try to look around a bit, get different views - even the ones that would rather disgust me and I give up often midway to articles and opinions but that exposure is needed.<p>I try not to equate news with that one truth - it can't be - but rather something towards the truth - or let's just call it "knowing about some event or something in somewhat detail" - and that rather unsavoury exposure often reveals some parts of that perceived truth/knowledge that wouldn't be exposed to me if I didn't read views that are actually exactly opposite to mine, which I can't reconcile with. No one writes absolutely.<p>Also, being from India I do not try to limit myself to the "English only" news sources -- that is one way to read views which are extremely limiting in the sense of being from within an intellectual ghetto for both - Right and Left; and even the Centre. In fact more so for the Left and Centre because the Right had figured out that the vernacular is where the mass is and that's where their propaganda machine attacked almost a decade ago and then won the country in a swift propaganda coup of lies, deceit and misinformation. While the progressive intellectuals kept bickering in English, often among themselves.<p>What I meant is -- we should not try to filter news too much, limit our scope and sources for ideas. It's okay to go to and through a mishmash of sources.<p>And last one 1-2 years has taught me - nothing beats paper sources, even now; print magazines. Online, apps, Twitter, lists and all those shiny gaudy and minimal websites, and what not are just fancy tools to play with or are the refuse for the news obsessed/addicted. Okay, this is taking it a bit too far, but online sources do indeed distract too much and encourages you to scan, rather than absorbing, is too quick, and often leading to endless click/search-athon.