When life finally happened, I had to force myself to "slow" down. By "slow" I don't mean read less news, but rather I'd dedicate a week a month for catching up to the prior month's news (via RSS, etc).
And that's where I learned the same lesson as you: It's better to read about a news event a month or so after the actual event. The first few days is mostly speculation, and it's best not to get rumors in your head. Seeing all those articles at once makes it easy to glean what did and didn't happen. Seeing them piecemeal over a month made it harder.
(I don't bother with news any more, but that lesson stuck with me).
Consuming news has little to do with being informed. Quite the opposite, at times.
It is fairly maddening when you know what they say is completely inconsistent with what was happening.
Those are the things among many others that actually make you informed about the world, in my opinion, not the news feed.