Face it, the news industry is not all about news. It's 'infotainment'. Its about making money for the sponsors, who are usually the same ones whose lobbyist, are promoting legislation, that, of course gets on the 'news'(read: advertisements). Notice the ads on the news is always heavily promoting the pharmaceutical companies, for 'illness's' that don't even exist! That's just one.
The other thing about the 'news', is it steers people AWAY from the REAL
issues, that have higher incrimination content, that reveals how bogus our system has gotten, through corruption. Then once in a while we get a political 'sex scandal' thrown at us, to divert us away from the REAL
scandals, and high level crimes, and deterioration of our constitutional rights. then once in a while we get a talk show host, who 'says it all'...and now that 'all' has been said, we feel like 'that because its out there' that its being corrected. WRONG! only YOU feel better(because it was said)..and the slippery slope goes on...while we much on our Fritos and 'enjoy' the news.