Walter Cronkite (it’s okay, kids– he may have been before your time) has an earful to say about today’s broadcast network news, lamenting "your health and mine and your backyard and mine and all that kind of thing" at the expense of more substantive reports.
Golly.
Fact is, I don’t watch much network news anymore. I prefer my magazine items in magazines, or even 60 Minutes, not in the one half-hour a day where we used to get to see what’s going on in the world. So I don’t watch. (Of course, I may be working late, too.)