I used to love the news at the university I went to. They would do 20 minutes of headlines-of-the-day and then they would do an hour of in-depth analysis of ONE of those headlines. All the background information you needed to actually know what was really going on, and why the various sides were in conflict.

I haven't been that well-informed since.

The news (the real news) is still out there, but you have to dig for it. And there are just too many venues available by which to stay ignorant.