Coming back to this, what I should be surprised by is the relatively large portions of people getting news ‘across the isle’. My prior was that this was substantially worse, with single digit percent of people getting any actual news at all.

I was under the impression that FOX has now bought many small local news stations in no-where-ville, which did (and, I assume, continue to do) perfectly competent local reporting. Am I crazy?

They just also run nonsense on the side; the ‘mandatory’ coverage. Was there a late-show about this a few years back?