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I think there's much information, I can't understand some percentage that I see. Specially with covid news. When i see "X" cases since November 10, I don't know if the peak was in day 10 or before.
the news is not always honest, but gives what they want you to hear and believe, take time and look things up for yourself and you will be a more well rounded educated person
Even as an English teacher, I struggle to make meaningful sense of some things I hear on the news. For example, I often struggle to fit stories about overseas conflict into the bigger picture. Even after looking things up, I can't always understand the rationale for this action or that. The history is too complex, and it goes back too far.
And I'm right with you on the Covid ambiguity.
Different "News" sources push different agendas. Many of them also contradict themselves frequently. News today is mostly just some leftist, or rightist propaganda to push their agenda. I suggest finding reporter's, or News sources that aren't reporting from a power of authority(Example: not reporting with their religion, or political beliefs being their main agenda/affecting them from being able to report from a neutral point, and just report the news). Which is getting harder to find.
There is a lot of apparently conflicting information because they are often reporting different things.
Very commonly one article will talk about actual daily cases, while other articles will talk about 7 or 10 day average cases.
The two different forms of these numbers provide different information. Daily values can jump around a lot (especially as test results are often only analyzed Monday-Friday, with lessor analysis on Saturday and Sunday).
Multi-day averages smooth out those daily changes.
Different Studies also focus on Different Things - and the results may not be directly compared, even if they are related.
It does take paying attention to detail to figure it out. Of course, poor news reporting at times does not correctly explain what the results actually are or what the study focused on. All of this is actually normal though.