Hot air and politics

After listening to bloviating pundits, politicians and news anchors for more than 50 years I think I am finally getting tired of it.  I have noticed over the years the descent of news into a sort of stew consisting of minimal facts and maximum opinion regarding said facts.  When Walter Cronkite or Chet Huntley read the news, you could be pretty sure they were reporting facts.   True, they withheld some information from their viewers, whether the salacious details of JFK's numerous affairs or the inner workings of the FBI.  What they did report, however was straight up and verifiable.  Similarly, the Sunday morning news programs like Meet the Press, etc. dealt in facts.  Over time, this emphasis on facts has eroded to the extent news is more like speculation than reportage of facts.  The news cycle is continuously pre-empted by the story or scandal du jour.   So we spend 2 weeks speculating about Malaysian flight 367 to the exclusion of virtually all other news.  Meanwhile, FOX News (sic) is all Benghazi, all the time.  What does this mean to the next generation of consumers of news.  To me it seems that most of our children are either turned off by the balkanization of news or actively pursue the particular bubble which coincides with their world view.  The advent of the internet makes this process easier than ever.  It has famously been said that facts have a notoriously liberal bias, but for somewhere around 30% of the population, this is an inconvenient truth to be avoided at all costs.