A big part of the problem is that the media has given up on analysis.
The reason I only got news from the Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, and Some More News for a long time (aside from the comedy making it more tolerable) is that they actually bothered talking about the news, the hows, whys, and consequences of what was happening.
Modern news media stops at just presenting events for the viewers to goggle at between commercials, so of course it jumps from one subject to the next; it has nothing else to say.
Analysis sacrificed on the altar of the “unbiased.”
