People have been asking this same question for well over a century. Perhaps you've heard "if you don't read the New York Times, you're uninformed, and if you do, you're misinformed." I don't know who originally said that, but it's usually attributed to Mark Twain. Personally, I think it's better to be uninformed than misinformed, and I'm not alone in that belief.

Beware of false knowledge, it is far more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw

There's also this meme, courtesy of @lucylin:

On the flip side, there's the absolute shit-take that History is un-American, which the Varyag tore apart.