I absolutely blame The Weather Channel for that crap, starting with sending Jim Cantore and Mike Seidel out into hurricanes. 
Pull the plug on the TV, and select your news from the internet. That way you get to quickly visit a range of news providers, and drill down when you prefer.
Some people seem to think that Walter Cronkite was a purely objective reporter and not one who believed it was his job to direct the opinions of Americans. See Tet Offensive.
Internet. News aggregation websites pull from many different sources so different views can be weighed. I don’t watch TV news except for national elections, and even then I have my laptop.
The last time I depended on TV news was Sept 12, 2001. When I woke up in the morning after a very normal day, the world had changed. The only live TV we had was CNN International, and I listened for at least 5 minutes before I muted the talking heads and called my father in the states to find out what was going on. No one on TV said one word about hijacked airplanes as they went on and on and on…
I think a major point where the TV news started to value ratings and profit over actual news was during the coverage of the OJ Simpson trial. It boosted the ratings of the cable news channels and they went looking for other lurid crime cases to cover when it was over. The murders of Jon-Benet Ramsey and Chandra Levy among others. I’ve always wondered why the news seems to cover one crime over another. One factor seems to be if there is an attractive white female(either as a victim or perpetrator) they can frame the story around.
Actually I do. My wife has been the TV news junkie, although she’s on board with killing it after the first 15 minutes. She also does a shit ton of online news reading, far more than I do.
Here is an excellent example:
The title says that there is a “debate” concerning the removal of the Stonewall Jackson statue at the Harrison County, WV courthouse.
The article states that the first two people they interviewed supported keeping the statue, but they then “caught up” with a guy that said that if it offends people it shouldn’t be there.
It concludes by saying that the commissioners could not be reached for comment and that there had been no "calls’ for removing it!
So the article is a big nothingburger. There is no debate, no proposal to remove the statue. Why was this article even written? What shitty journalism.
ETA: And a video along with it exposing this on the edge of your seat story!
Missing white woman syndrome is a phenomenon noted by social scientists and media commentators of the extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The phenomenon is defined as the Western media’s undue focus on upper-middle-class white women who disappear, with the disproportionate degree of coverage they receive being compared to cases of missing women of color, women of lower social classes and missing men or boys.
I gave up with Breaking News when my local ABC newscast literally gives me a BREAKING NEWS graphic whenever Trump has a tweet.
Similarly CNN is on a quest every single day to find a new Trump voter who has mixed opinions on voting for Trump.
And then it stays “breaking” for hours and hours afterward, even after it’s well and truly broken.
I think it goes back to Gulf War I - CNN’s 24-hour coverage of Wolf Blitzer standing around in the desert in front of military equipment talking about SCUDs was a gamechanger for news channels. Unfortunately even the excitement of war pales after a while and so they have to find something else to titillate their viewers, even if it doesn’t actually inform them.