I do not read news sites and I do not consider myself as uninformed.
In terms how one can consider oneself about news, I think this is closer to uninformed than the other way. But that's me.
Unimportant info is filtered, that realy important that somehow affect me get quite quickly. Most conversation about news are irrelevant thus I have more time to do other things.
News are mostly distraction and emotion flow anyway, I'm not sure why consumption is considering as informing. There are plenty other subjects that I consider much more informative.