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"To be clear, I’m mostly talking about following TV and internet newscasts here. This post isn’t an indictment of journalism as a whole. There’s a big difference between watching a half hour of CNN’s refugee crisis coverage (not that they cover it anymore) versus spending that time reading a 5,000-word article on the same topic."

This is important.

I haven't watched cable news in years (maybe a decade now?) but still check in with long form journalism for in-depth exploration of a topic.

I think this right here is a source of all of the evil mentioned in the article:

https://fs.blog/narrative-fallacy/

I'm not always above creating narratives and cherry-picking information that feeds those narratives because, end of the day, Im human just like everybody else. But being aware of this and learning how to better catch yourself as you're doing it does make a massive difference. It also damned near forces you to try and look for information closer to the source.

(Try reading news sources in another language from another country and watch what happens. Ideally you wouldnt use Google Translate)