I watch local news and get my national and world news from the web. ALL network and cable news hand feeds us what they want to in order to shape our opinions to their way of thinking. I prefer reading it all (good and bad) then forming my own opinions. Current events are an excellent example. The networks focus only on instances of white cops shooting black people, but completely ignore the hundreds of other shootings that took place at the same time that didn't involve opposing races. Creating drama is good for ratings and that's all they're interested in doing. One of the scariest things is that most people aged 18-49 watch Colbert and Jon Stewart and actually believe they are watching news instead of carefully scripted comedy.
Ten years ago the major news outlets spent most of their on-air time picking apart every little thing our president did, and now ten years later those same news outlets spend all of their time not reporting what our current president does unless it's some fluffy feel-good news piece. All of the negative stuff gets overlooked or swept under a rug.
So yeah, fuck the news.