I think I stopped watching TV News in high school when the Cronkite was on every night bringing the daily bad news from Viet Nam into our homes. I subscribed to the WSJ in an Engineering Economics class and have kept it current almost ever since. Then, with the advent of the WWW and more reliable and honest news, who would ever need to plop themselves down in front of the boob tube to watch radical libs spout their biases as “news”?
“Trust” in TV news died with Huntley and Brinkley.
As a highschool student Crankbait made me sick. So did the Super Liar Dan the Blabber. My Mom was a leftist hippie but hated them both as well simply because she didn’t like liars.