Again- by and large television is a terrible source of factual information. The goal is sell not inform. Study after study has shown that people that garner their information from television news are likely to believe things that simply aren't true.

A recent survey found:
"Perhaps most interesting were the results based on where Americans got their news. Those who claimed Fox News was one of their top two sources for political news, believed Trump‘s false claims 33 percent of the time, compared to 21 percent of those who say Fox News is not one of their primary news sources.

The same is true of those who count on MSNBC or CNN as one (or both) as their top two news sources. While they’re more likely to be able to spot Trump falsehoods, 44 percent of MSNBC viewers, and 40 percent of CNN viewers believe false Democratic claims.

The best informed group, according to the results, were those who relied on old-fashioned public radio, like NPR, or traditional print publications, like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economics, or WaPo. Only 16 percent of those citing public radio as one of their two primary political news sources believed the same false statements, the most informed of any group in the poll, followed only by those consuming news from print publications, at 17 percent.

The takeaway? Cable news networks, perhaps, aren’t the best place to get your news, nor are fringe online publications. Those of us who are best informed, according to this poll at least, are reading local and national print publications, and listening to a lot of NPR."

The goal of news consumption should be to inform of what IS- not what we want or think should be true. I see a good deal of Fox news day in and day out when I'm at work- thank god I don't have to say the same of MSNBC and CNN. Watching FOX is like watching news from the Hunger Games movies; even the makeup and characters are the same.