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twiigss CNN, unfortunately, unwittingly changed the whole game decades ago. Taking the 30 minute nightly newscast and stretching it into 24/7 coverage has been disastrous for American people. First, it causes a general level anxiety unknown before. Look around; we've got people screaming about legislature that will never even touch them, panicking about things that haven't even happened.
That's bad enough, but we've taken a package of human interest, sports, weather and world news and distilled it down to one main story and that story only until the Next Big Thing shows up. And there's already a clear distinction within the industry between news and regular entertainment. Problem is, the terms are used behind the scenes. Hannity, Tucker, Larry King, Alex Jones...they all fall under Infotainment, a bastardized child of news and fiction. This is how you see all the spin and personal opining. It's categorized and scheduled as such, reported to the FCC as such, but the people watching are never the wiser.
And it has spread through journalism. Every day there's another videotaped example of a reporter pushing what he thinks is a noble Agenda of the People while confronting others. Reporting and journalism is an objective reporting of verified facts. Not soap-boxing, not speculation, not conjecture, not "some have said". No panels of 7 experts are needed to discuss the 20 second newsbyte presented. TV news has become theater and they've only done so because the people consume it.
Best thing you can do is turn off the TV. Turn off social media or at least check it only once a day. The TV used to tell us about the world as it was; now we're making up a world and presenting as real.
