You are not "watching" less "news", you're watching less propaganda, as most of us are not getting "news" on TV, imcluding most of FNC programming, sad to say (Brit Hume program is possible exception). Glenn Beck on CNN-HNN is not s bad source of original news/info as well. We get the real news from sources like FR, where we can validate or invalidate the quality of the sources and importance of news, and get the background and related info and links from comments...
al-Media went all out to cover anything negative that can be attributed to Republicans/Bush and either gloss over or misreport anything positive that happened in the country or oversees that can be attributed to Republicans/Bush and anything negative that can be attributed to Democrats (Oil-for-Food, WMDs in Libya, Dems Congressional corruption, Frank Raines/Jamie Gorelick in Fannie Mae scandal, national security leaks, etc., etc.)
Compound this with the fact that a lot of positive things that happened in GWOT just cannot and should not be disclosed just for political reasons due to sensitive nature of information. Also, how do you tell people that Iraq now serves as a main source for our human intelligence (HUMINT) in GWOT and a Roach Motel for al-Qaeda as they have to keep sending personnel and funds and communications there, and their tactics of fomenting a sectarian strife is really ticking off a lot of Muslims elsewhere who saw for the first time that democracy in ME may not be such a bad thing? Bush tried a few times to point out the message in intercepted letters from al-Zawahiri to al-Zarqawi, which implicitly explains why we should stay in Iraq (it has nothing to do with "winning the war in Iraq" in conventional territorial war sense), but that was drowned out by al-Media, yet only picked up by few Congress Republicans who could've run with this to neutralize Iraq casualties issue, i.e. there's important job to do in Iraq, our brave troops are doing it and it doesn't require more of our troops to police few violent gangland regions where Muslims kill Muslims no matter how much al-Media wants to concentrate on that aspect of Iraq.
So spare yourself the pain of "watching" the "news", we need you healthy and happy for upcoming battles. :-)