We can only make quality choices for our personal media diets and support them. American broadcast and cable news is pretty well useless to me, to the point where I haven’t watched it regularly in years. I used to give CNN an exception for breaking news, but that’s changed since they made that dimwit Don Lemon and the braying fool Richard Quest their go-to guys on big breaking stories.
There are lots of good outlets still out there, some of them American. One tip I give Americans who want reputable and thoughtful coverage of our own country is CBC Radio and TV – due to proximity they cover a lot of American stories, but the tone is very calm and considered and (unlike NPR) they don’t feel obliged to pretend the GOP is a sane party or that the rantings of racists and science denialists deserve to be taken seriously.
