> There's never a lack of relevant news.

Some news is relevant to everybody, but I think most news is not relevant to most people most of the time. And most news that is relevant to some people won't be relevant to most people. "Six-car pileup on I-whatever" might be very relevant to me if I'm commuting on that road, but it's irrelevant to most people.

There's nothing wrong with the media running this kind of news story, a story that's relevant to some but irrelevant to most. The problem occurs when the decision is made to sensationalize the coverage of the incident, to make it interesting to everybody it isn't relevant to. And since very little is relevant to everybody, just about everything ends up getting sensationalized.

There's plenty of news sources internationally that provide interesting articles without "progressive" commentary, with instead say maybe an editorial and some explainer: Financial Times, The Economist, amongst other local sources. Or perhaps I'm just dull.

They're primarily in text (print/web) though.

I'd watch a news channel with FT/The Economist style content translated to TV, I think...

You're right. There is plenty of subject matter for news.

What I think there isn't much of is the above in easily mined form. Serious news consumes resources (reporters, investigators, supporting crew, etc).

What passes for news today (opinion from Twitter) is virtually free and pretty endless so it's the option most go for because the other option costs serious money.

> There's never a lack of relevant news.

Really? Unless you're using a much broader definition of "relevant" than I use, I'm struggling to remember the last time I saw something on mainstream media that had any impact on my life whatsoever.

> I'm struggling to remember the last time I saw something on mainstream media that had any impact on my life whatsoever.

I'm in Germany. Just this week, the news have been full about new policies that went into effect on June 1 to reduce cost of living amidst inflation and energy price hikes in particular (a tax rebate on fuel, and subsidized public transit passes). There is also news about shortages of particular food items like sunflower oil and mustard. (I actually wanted to purchase mustard last week and was confused why there was so little of it. Turns out that Ukraine used to be a major supplier of mustard seeds.) Also, Coronavirus policies for the next winter are being discussed, which admittedly does not have impact on our daily lifes right now, but there will be an impact when the policies go into effect.

I don't disagree with your notion. There really is a lot of news that is non-actionable and can therefore be considered superfluous, but "I can't remember the last time" is taking it way too far in my opinion.

Agreed, but apparently not completely impossible, depending on your definition of news. C-SPAN somehow manages to have three channels of content, while mostly avoiding the hype and bias that CNN has.

CSPAN is basically just a collection of webcams pointed at Congress. They are a nonprofit that get paid 6cents/yr/cablebox.