For the record...I dont go to any one media site, except one...I go to the cbc everyday, because my tax dollars fund that shit. I do go to drudge report and a lot of other sites. I go to leftie sites and i go to righties sites. If you dont go to both, then you only getting half the story. I dont like sites that I cant comment on and I tend to stay away from those sites. Everyone has an agenda, so much propaganda. Here's another quote.
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
Mark Twain
Sites which don't have an easy-to-find and easy-to-use comments section are a big red flag saying 'fake news' to me. I also try to look at news sources from all sides even if I have to force myself, but when one does not have a comments section, I strike it of my list.
Basically 'fake news' cannot survive when there is a comments section. When they publish fake news it is immediately called out. I often skim the comments before taking the time to really read the article (as opposed to quickly skimming it.)
Another class of news outfit will have a comments section, but it is highly edited. Unfortunately the only way to find that out is to make a comment which has no reason to be scrubbed except that it makes a good counter-point, then see it be scrubbed anyway. I've learned from experience that both OregonLive and TYT are both in this category. OregonLive is some on-line implementation of one of the state of Oregon's main print newspapers.