The irony of this is that most, if not all, right wingers would rather watch or read "news" that agree with their PoV, like Fox News or InfoWars. From what I know, more millennials are likely to read the news and more likely to know what's fake and what's real than older gens. You seem like one of those millennials that like to criticize their own generation just to look cool and edgy, and given some other things you've posted, I'm pretty sure this is correct. While all news publications are guilty of mixing real news with fake or opinions, no sources are worse than right wing sources, and I've read many of them.I would guess only a tiny minority of the population reads the news.
There are countless millennials who are huge fans of the Saw horror genre and Hannibal Lecter TV series. People who pride themselves on being into things that are messed up. Who would never read or watch real news. Reality is too disturbing, they would prefer to avoid it.
Being exposed to different ideas and perspectives carries the power to change people. That can be frightening. Like one day being a caterpillar. Being exposed to new ideas. And waking up a butterfly. Or a moth. A person's identity and how they view the world changes. And so many resist that change and cling to their identity via avoiding exposure.
Like Mary Poppins says: "a spoonful of sugar, helps the medicine go down". All news publications today mix real news with fake news to make their "medicine" easier to swallow. Most are wholly unaware, clinging to their identity. Resisting the evolution of change which occurs when people are exposed to truth/facts.
Trump is a prime example of this, watching Fox News and reading Breitbart ONLY because it paints him in a good light most of the time. If he gets criticized, he'll go on Twitter, cry about it, and attack the critics with some bullshit and show the world that he's an inept crybaby president. It also doesn't help when he tries to take credit for Obama's successes (like the economy) or puts the blame on Obama (pandemic response) despite evidence proving him a liar.
