[lawrenceyan]

HN is definitely manipulated as well. But you aren't necessarily missing out on anything if you only visit this site for news at the same time.

If you're genuinely overloaded, I'd say you're probably okay. It might be worthwhile to consider the value of being able to see different perspectives, even if often times the content is rehashed (e.g. What is being said differently? What is omitted in one and not the other?). I think everyone, if they have the time, should take a historiography course because these are the kinds of things you learn about.

It's especially important now, given the technology accelerated world we live in today of effectively instantaneous global mass-communication.