Curious what are your sources. I have a few friends who are also anti-big news outlets and they link me to their alternative sources, which some of them are VERY ultra-right-wing outlets.
What I usually do is keep in touch with mainstream news and then go to opposing news and a variety of blogs/social media commentators trying to cover all sides. MSM is garbage. Interesting journalism happens at ProPublica, The Intercept, Monocle, heck I even read Breitbart.
Do you need sources for this? It was always self evident to me that people setup media companies in an attempt to own the narrative and somehow gain an advantage. What other reason could there be?
Why let your self get wrapped up in global or national issues (real or fake). Instead, focus your efforts locally on things that make a difference to you every day.
Local things make no difference to people who end up moving every few years.