Maybe we need to have publicly funded non-partisan, non-entertainment news, and all the other crap can be turned back into reality tv shows for all I care. Break up the conglomerates and let them become opinion or talk shows instead, but not called news and not connected to the news stations.
I haven't watched tv for at least 15 years because I couldn't hack the crap. I think there are a lot of people like me who found the internet gives us what we were missing (along with a lot of crap, but we can sort it out).
If news had standards that had to be met to qualify for public funding and all other phony news programs had to be labeled talk shows instead, maybe people would actually break away from that to watch some real news once in a while.
Of course the real news programs would have to be in 10 minute spurts at best because of short attention spans now. 
Hey I've got it...in between regular programming, you get a three minute burst of real news several times, just like advertising. Maybe some subliminal messages in there too.
Obviously I don't have the answers, but I don't believe it's impossible to find some. Someone just needs to be willing to try. But like I said, it depends on breaking up the big money and conglomerates. And the FCC needs to establish some stiff standards for journalism and actual fair and balanced news.
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