I gave up television about nine months ago and haven’t looked back, not even for my sports teams that I followed, it is all liberal promotion of a dysfunctional life and it is corrupt. I now enjoy reading, music, walks and nature, friends, writing, crafts and other hobbies, meditation, prayer and anything wholesome I can find to do.
Basically I had the same type of reaction that you are having here to things I was seeing on television and I had just had it with the entire mentality of it all.
I usually have it on for background noise, I was up getting some more coffee and passing by, heard the commercial when I realized it was 2 girls talking.
I had to stop and watch (kinda like you do w/ car wrecks). You don’t want to see anything bad, and usually don’t, but this time was different.