We don’t watch any TV news at all. We threw our TV out and never replaced it when it broke down back in 2016. Instead we subscribe to the online versions of New York Times, The Guardian (British) and BBC. We also subscribe to The Week which is a weekly roundup of world news magazine.
There’s an old New Yorker cartoon showing a lady and a priest standing outside a confessional and the lady is saying “Of course, my confessions probably aren’t nearly as interesting as yours.”
Also, check out Tom Lehrer’s Vatican Rag. Hilarious!
" I will watch the news, but I don’t pay a lot of attention to it. It alerts me to items I might want to read more about."
Good point.