There's no "authority of bias" you can trust. You have to view many sides and perspectives and judge for yourself the truth in the middle.
But judging from your hyperbolic, unsolicited statements you do seem to have some biases yourself that you may want to even out.
Sure, relying on authorities is not a great solution. Not sure there is any good way for any individual to do mass surveys of the current media and form their own opinion of where all publications reside. You can have an opinion, but in a vacuum it will mostly also be off. Who has the time to read a million articles, form a think tank, and produce some 'analysis of where everyone resides on some scale' compared to their own scale. This is why we rely on some 'authority'. Nobody is going home and replicating all scientific research either.
All language is circular. It is a conundrum.