Shouldn't he be holding a gun?
Eh, eastern media can be just as bad for fake news.
I'd rather say, "don't trust any one media network", the most important thing you need to do is to verify stories from multiple sources, and even read about the same event from multiple political sides, and see what matches.
Western media is in a unique position because most users here are unfortunately Western themselves which lends them to being exposed to psychically lethal doses of Western media through no choice of their own.
But most importantly Western media are the world's stenographers owing to the Western (mainly American) hegemony. Indian cable news is repeating the "Hamas terrorists" line that originates from Israeli and American media. As vile as the Indian media corporations are they did not arrive at these conclusions independently.
None of this advice would have helped protect people from the onslaught of bullshit for the likes of the US war in Ukraine or the Uighur genocide. Multiple... all Western sources claimed the same absurd shit. There were no political sides, the lies were unanimous.
