The last time I watched TV news, with their beauty model talking heads, I just laughed...It’s become a pathetic wasteland, of totally choreographed and rehearsed streaming propaganda...My TV went back off after about 5 minutes.
Even if TV news were “fair and balanced”, it’s still a very inefficient way to get your news. A lot of time is wasted in setting the scene, etc. Then the actual “news” reports are very brief. You can’t drill deeper into a story. If you are watching “live”, rather than recorded news, you can’t skip ahead, you can’t go over it again. The only exception to this is breaking news, where the video portion actually matters.