Wrong. The article is wrong. He is not checking it out, he is looking away from it!
Checking something out looks like this:

...and OMG, obviously Venom took over spawn now!
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’







