This is my favorite topic. Pravda reporting and "news" coverage is alive and well here in the USA. There is little, if any, professional journalism once you leave local and area news. The network coverage is nothing more than shaping and spinning of the news. There is enough real news to fill about an hour of airtime, the other 23 hours are editorial events, and nothing more. There seems to be a pretty strong smell of political influence to just about everything reported. The trained reporters who have made it into the "varsity", should hang their heads in shame; because they have stepped away from true reporting. If you want a perfect example of of how bad the "news" coverage has been, look at Bryan Williams, and how long he got away with "reporting" shaped and spun pure fabrications. He is not the only one, just the poster child of today's news coverage at the top. For me, 30 minutes of local and regional news gets my attention, because it is: 1) Close to home, and easily verifiable, 2) It is real journalistic news. After that, about 30 minutes of world and national news from a network source to see how much they are bending their product. Beyond that, my interest falls away.
My $.02. Rant over, and back into my wee little cave here in The Valley.