Reply #4: It's not you , it's them.

[Smarmie Doofus]

Not your imagination at all. Part of a more generalized drift to the far right that has characterized ABC "News" over the last few years.

Said shift highlighted by the departure of relatively 'legit' newspeople ( Jennings, Koppell, Brinkley... even Walters) and their replacement by such as Stossell, Stephanapoulous and the British 'Michael Jackson is a pervert' guy on Niteline ( which used to be devoted to 'hard news' ... if perhaps superficially... but is now all infotainment.).

Did I say shift to the right ? Yes... and an inexorable shift from dumb to dumber still. No coincidence there.

Perhaps it's supply and demand , also: ABC making a bid for a chunk of the Fox audience. Hard to tell'em apart at this point, whatever the cause.