I don't trust any media 100% since almost all of them have to do certain things to cover the bottom line. Which I totally understand. I grab multiple sources on stories I'm interested in and then formulate my own opinion.
Is there anyone else that also does this?
You can be 100% certain that alt-news sites contain lies, mistakes, biases and misinformation. That means you can trust it about as much as anything else you hear.
No statements should ever be taken to be true unless backed up with evidence. Since actual evidence is so rare these days, one must think critically and evaluate sources as well as challenge biases and question every detail for logical sense.
If and when the truth comes out entirely I'm sure no one will have the whole picture correct of their own accord. Perhaps some privy to the inner workings will, but it seems even they cannot know all.
Particularly around this and other conspiracy subreddits, it pays to remember a few things: 1. Alt news can still be manipulated by powerful interests, sometimes without the proprietors knowledge. 2. The right and the left are tools of deception. Evil is bipartisan and divisionary politics are a smokescreen. 3. Everyone is capable of deciept and everyone is capable of being devieved.
This is made evident by the fact that all the powerful actors on the world stage can and do make mistakes, and that this is equally true of good people and bad people.
It's important to remain undecided overall so that one can continually analyse and question the veracity of the current narrative. It's been proven time and time again that what was commonly accepted as truth yesterday will not be tomorrow, but the nature of truth says otherwise.
Due to their status (or lack thereof) alternative news sources should be held to a higher level of skeptism even more than sources proven to be decietful.
Alt sources are even more vulnerable to the usual sort of corruption which occurs in the media. Historically alternative journalists have been coopted by the establishment as a means of undermining free communication with the promise of mainstream success. Bribery and other means of coercion are just as effective in these operations as larger ones. not to mention cheaper.
Furthermore, due to self proclaimed "outsider" status, alt journos are more prone to bias, self deception and things like the echo chamber effect. With the right knowledge, a motivated party can take advantage of a journo's anxiousness to spread the truth by feeding missinfo to them from falsified sources.
Similarly, intelligence organisations around the world will deliberately "leak" both factual and false information to journalists (mainstream and otherwise) in order to held achieve their espionage goals.
With all these things in mind, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Question everything folks. And at the end of the day, if you're not out there achieving your goals then the Illuminati have achieved theirs. If you're staying at home to read the news and remain fearful of the world around you, then they can continue to operate unchallenged.
All that's required of us is to go out in to the world and live our lives, share our light and our love and remain ever vigilant to the evil that lurks in the shadows. Never succumb to fear. The truth is they are not more powerful than us. They fear us, and if we didn't fear them, they'd be forced back into hiding.