If you're getting all your international news from a single source, you should question what their narrative is, who their parent company is, and question
their narrative. Chances are it'll fall into two neatly manufactured categories (left wing/right wing) with little room for actual news, and will have a very narrow (and manufactured) range of debate.
Up until recently, I used to follow the news in around 12 different countries, and would read an average of 10 -15 different news websites for each country. By reading newspaper editorials, you can gain an insight into that company's stance on the bigger issues, their political proclivities, and whose narrative they're pushing.
Once you've established who the mainstreamers are, you can go looking for independent news, but it involves a lot of time and research on your part. Eventually, you can follow a news story from many viewpoints, and for example, I could say that 3 - 4 news organisations in country X are saying 'Politician Y did something,' 3 - 4 saying that he didn't do anything, and one or two ignoring that story altogether because they're too busy exposing corruption at the United Nations, or some other story that will be unseen/ignored by the majority.
When mainstream 'news' organisations are busy focusing on the size of kim kardashian's arse and whether it could break the internet, you need to ask wtf are these organisations not covering/not reporting. Kudos to anyone who refuses to be force-fed their news from the tv/radio and instead actively seeks out what's going on in the world by checking multiple sources from multiple countries with multiple agendas.
While it's admirable to want to know what's going on globally, getting it from one source means your outlook and facts will be very, very narrow, and you could be being deliberatley misled/misinformed by the organisation whose 'news' you seek, on account of their narrative which they push constantly.
I suggest that next time you come across a story that you find interesting enough to research further - look to overseas news groups for
their take on the event. Read about the same story reported from say, the Japanese perspective, the Iranian, the Brazilian, the French - it's a good way of seeing what the rest of the world thinks about your country/how it's run and will at least widen your own perspective and mind.
The drudge report btw, was created by this guy:
EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
Matt Drudge - Wikipedia
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^^ a quick glance at his work bio and his stint at Fox News should set alarm bells ringing immediately. Personally, I'd avoid the drudge report like the plague, but if you're happy to be told what's going on in the world by someone who describes themself as a 'conservative populist,' that's your prerogative.
