Why is TV news so bad?

It’s a failure to recognize that news is a different animal – that there’s a place for something that is a public service. The news should have slightly different rules. Roger Ailes [president of Fox News] has shown that you can exercise editorial management over the process. I may not necessarily agree with the way Fox is exercising it, but it shows that it can be done. News should function as our digestive system.

Jeff Sharlet interview with Jon Stewart at The Revealer.