In real life, I don't watch a lot of TV news because I learn very little by doing so. Yes, I run my own news agency, so I have access to information far beyond most folks. But the main reason television media fails me is because it's incredibly lazy.
While in the Far East at the end of May, I watched CNN in the evening because that was my only source for American news. No Fox, no NBC. CNN has the overseas market locked up. Because of the 12-hour time difference, I was consuming CNN's morning programming. It featured skilled broadcasters, but the presentation was mostly biased and foolish.