Why I'm giving up on corporate American news channels and watching BBC!

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Is anyone else so sick of slanted opinionated, abbreviated, sensationalized, homogenized, news? Honestly, the cable news networks in the USA more resemble voices of the Republican Party, (except for MSNBC, which from 4 PM to 11 PM is the voice of the Democratic Party for a few hours).

If I were a Brit, visiting the USA, I would think the Daily Mail had ownership of all the cable channels. I would think that America was full of psychopathic parents and priests who abuse or kill or abduct their children, or kill their spouse in the process of divorce.
I would think ONLY America COUNTS, and the other 95% of the population of the world was immaterial, unless it was a threat to that hallowed holy 5% in the US. I would think that American schools of journalism also teach their students to be side-show barkers at the local circus, shouting at their audience "come inside our tent, after this commercial, and see the amazing bearded woman slay her husband with a ginsu-knife!" or "come inside to see how fake Obama's birth certificate really is!".

America has lost their real journalists of conscience, they realize now they have sold them out to the addiction of fear. Americans turn on their news to see the spectacle, to become more petrified of their other American neighbors, conservative or liberal. And the big omission in America is any mention of the pre-civil war racism, which still thrives like a Cancer in all fifty organs of her body.
Conservative Americans are hypnotized into ignoring it, while liberal Americans are blindsided and befuddled by the never-ending call for the President's certificate of birth! Both liberals and conservatives mostly ignore internecine racial animus, and go about their daily lives, falsely believing all this was "setttled" in 1865, when Lee Surrendered to Grant. Of course, historically informed Americans know that the struggle for equality goes on today, and that one racial group is slowly making SOME progress, while those of Spanish speaking origin are largely facing that same prejudice and fear that blacks and native Americans face alongside them. The point is that American news treats all these racial tensions (or worse) as "anomalies", not the elephant in the living room's center, news media treat these issues more like the spider in the corner.

Anyway, enough for my first rant on American cable news media, (with echo's in countless other print media, from Huffington Post to the Blaze and World News Daily, Washington Post, or Washington Times, New York Post or New York Times).

What are YOUR thoughts about what you are being fed on the TV machine, packaged and sponsored and sold to you as "news"?
Do you turn them off? Do you seek other alternatives? Do you think PBS and NPR have sold out too?

And for those of you reading this from Canada, or the UK, or anywhere else on the globe, what are your thoughts about how bad our cable channel lineup of freak shows called "news" has become?