Originally Posted by AZCivic

It's disapointing, but you have to keep in mind that television is for entertainment. You might think that news is supposed to make you smarter, but it's not. News exists for it's entertainment value so you tune in and get their viewership numbers up so they can charge more for advertizing. Even if they got 95 smart responses, they choose to show the 5 dumb ones on the air for entertainment value.