I understand the sentiment, but disagree with the conclusion. There are some unbiased and quality sources of reporting, even on television. E.g. PBS's Newshour

I understand the sentiment, but disagree with the conclusion. There are some unbiased and quality sources of reporting, even on television. E.g. PBS's Newshour does a good job. More importantly, there is a lot of useful material outside of television land. For instance, Foreign Affairs does a good job covering both sides of defense issues. HIR, Brown Journal of World Affairs, and similar publications are also high-quality. I think the real problem is that we want our news to be entertaining (or at least not work-like), but truly understanding any given issue in the news requires consuming large quantities of evidence prepared and presented from various perspectives. And that's not always as fun as watching (or making fun of) Fox/CNN/NBC/etc. In fact, sometimes it's pretty boring.