then how do you stay informed? do birds perch on your window and tell you what they see as they're flying around? if you don't look at the news, then you have no idea whats going on in the world...yeah, i know, "you can look at the news and still not know what's going on in the world"....bullshit.
look at media that backs each other up...Reuters, AP, npr, bbc, the hill, propublica, forbes, usa today, voice of america...these are all reliable sites, every thing they say can be checked, and backed up...they may have slight slants, but for the most part they're pretty impartial, and pretty fair, and pretty factual...all operating in the dark gets you is a knot on your head when you bounce off the wall