the cow is slaughtered and the media all take pieces of the cow, the pieces that they know their audience will "eat up"
they then start adding their own spices and additives (biases and fake news) that weren't part of the cow because they know that its what their audience likes.
they then feed this new and improved "truth" to them.
and audience then eats it and later they shit it back out to the world a crappy version of what they ate all over social media.
basically, you need to get information from all sides and the more "raw" that information is the better. because you do less work trying to remove the additives that each news source adds. once you have enough raw and close to raw pieces, you need to do the work and piece that cow/truth back together. in the end it may be incomplete and imperfect, but you will be closer to seeing the truth than anyone else just listening to one news source. and often the truth is ugly, complicated, convoluted, and gray.
Here is a good analogy about "news sources"
basically, you need to get information from all sides and the more "raw" that information is the better. because you do less work trying to remove the additives that each news source adds. once you have enough raw and close to raw pieces, you need to do the work and piece that cow/truth back together. in the end it may be incomplete and imperfect, but you will be closer to seeing the truth than anyone else just listening to one news source. and often the truth is ugly, complicated, convoluted, and gray.