For me the only way to approach news is going to many sources as possible and then thinking through the differences and similarities in reporting for myself. Anyway I get most of my news online now, cable news is too vulnerable to the requirements of ratings to not get annoying at some point or other. Maybe it stimulates the industry economically but it also creates an arms race of sensationalism that nobody wins, and yes I agree the responsibility to the public that the media is supposed to have trumps that. Journalism in general isn't the cash cow that's going to save the country anyway.
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