Examine what you read.
(And yes, I'm aware this fails Kant's categorical imperative.)
My reply is something a bit different: I believe news in general is junk food for your brain. The incentives involved in news publishing today tend to go against accuracy and truthfulness, and the things most described are usually the things that matter least - so news ultimately yields a negative value in terms of understanding the world around you. Better to pick a book instead.
There's a tendency, on the internet, to write off establishment people and groups completely, based on their all-time most egregious mistake (eg: The NYT is reduced to their toadying to Bush over WMD, election polling is meaningless because it failed to predict 2016, etc).
Most of these organizations aren't stellar, but, at this point, the public perception is so paranoid it makes Noam Chomsky sound as credulous as a boy scout.