News media priorities not quite right

One development I have noticed in my perhaps not-so-gracious, advancing years is the growing plethora of news reporting that appears to lack a corresponding increase in relevant information or any apparent endeavor to seek out meaningful alternatives. Television’s three major news channels, the several cable networks, the print media and the Internet seem to be engaged in the reporting and rehashing of that which is sensational or trendy but woefully lacking in substantive value.