Do you find the news cycle overwhelming to the point that you're not clear on what is going on?

Per your thoughts -

I use a variety of sources with different backgrounds. Headlines from four commercial news sites plus sometimes the national broadcaster, current affairs articles from a few independent sites. They contradict each other so between them I get a reasonable view.

It's a different situation in the US.

First of all I don't extend trust to ANY news organizations, at all. To me every news organization, including independents like "Democracy Now!" is seriously tainted with biases. Fox News is similar to your Sky News AU except Fox is in the bag for everything deep-state right so can't be trusted a lot either.

What I do trust are individuals with track records of reasonable accuracy. I've already named a few here.

The point is I don't trust news organizations to say the actual truth the same way I don't trust businesses to make decent moral decisions.