I did this 15 years ago. I also have entirely sworn off TV news. Not even ostensibly “conservative” sites like FOX.
As you say, papers are a dying media, and like all dying formats and ideologies, they actually become more concentrated, orthodox, and partisan as they decline - the bunker mentality.
But why should you eliminate TV news entirely?
TV news suffers from the same relative decline of influence, and growth in inherent bias - but TV is far worse. Time is money for them. Even an extremely important story will get no more than 3 minutes of reporting, and most TV news segments are given 30-45 seconds. How many real facts, nuance or historical background can be given to you in 30 seconds? Nothing. Add to that that TV media is controlled by an oligopoly of corrupt, deep state, political corporations, and it makes TV news pure garbage.
The internet has allowed new, incredible information formats to grow. There are tens of thousands of news, opinion, and investigative sites. With a simple search, you can find 10,000 word essays on a topic, listen to podcasts where experts speak on one issue for several hours, or you can even listen to the people involved speak on the topic themselves.
With this amount of direct information available, why would ANYONE want the over-processed, condensed, biased, dumbed-down intermediation of TV news and those who control it??
With this amount of direct information available, why would ANYONE want the over-processed, condensed, biased, dumbed-down intermediation of TV news and those who control it??
Well, there are still some people, who do not go online, and don’t see value in going online. With some of those people, part of it is just the old habit, of watching the CBS Evening News, or NBC Nightly News.
Some people also, believe it or not, think that there is actual journalism going on; that there are actual journalistic standards being used. So to such people, when Norah O’Donnell and her cronies report as fact that we are seeing global warming, such people take it as fact.