i think developing the skill of noticing what a particular news agency or article is trying to project onto you is more useful than anything.

So much of it, is an attempt to control your mind via framing the information in ways that make you have a specific opinion about the news. The news information may be correct, but they present it to you in a way that makes you come to totally different, sometimes unstable conclusions. Avoiding that is incredibly important.

If you get good at noticing "What are they trying to get me to think about this?" or "Who benefits from making me think about this topic in this way" you are inoculating yourself from a lot of what is ruining societies right now.

A lot of that is just reading comprehension...