I also hate how emotionally charged the music has become in certain segments or transitions. Watching a story on mute with subtitles, and watching it with sound

I also hate how emotionally charged the music has become in certain segments or transitions. Watching a story on mute with subtitles, and watching it with sound is a completely different experience. There has also been an increase in labelling everything "breaking news" and "top story", and the stories themselves have become sensationalized and rage baiting. The audio transitions into "breaking" stories prime you to feel a certain way even before hearing the story. I stopped seeing positive fluff, those time slots are replaced by things that feel like ad/sponsored segments or actual ads. At one point I realized that watching the news left me emotionally exhuasted, so I stopped watching it. Surprisingly my older relatives have done the same in the last couple of years. When I asked, they also called it too exhausting to watch. They are anxious about using technology, they aren't getting information through a different medium instead. They told me, "if I need to know about it, someone will bring it up."