Bad News

I read the news a lot online and today and yesterday was reading it a little extra and I am a little upset everyone because I think there are some problems with a lot of our news.  I usually read NBC news online because Fox news has a lot of pornography in the margins and the New York Times is complicated in a way that makes me wonder if maybe they don't really want me to understand what is going on.  Anyway I read NBC and I feel so upset so often because of so many problems with that site.  In addition to editorialized headlines that sound like middle school gossip, they often have videos where you can tell they have chosen to present those stories as videos because there is something horrible that probably should not be watched and made public.  And yet that is the appeal they are counting on.  It goes so far as to include stories about other news agencies posting inappropriate videos, and the story is basically something like "Can you believe this other news station posted this video of two heroin addicts passed out while their child was sitting in the car with them?" And then they show the video clips with an abused and neglected child sitting there online for everyone to see them in their moment of horror.  Another terrible thing on the site is the "sponsored news" where it is a supposed news article but paid for by an advertiser.  And yesterday after the bombing in New York City, there was a sponsored news article featuring... New York, New York, like maybe trying to get some accidental clicks from people trying to find out what was going on.  The article was really about a random product other than their usual credit card companies advertising for student loans by talking about people who won millions of dollars or got rich quick in some way.  This is all mixed in with their normal headlines, and these things are part of their news page every single day.  An article I missed is any kind of reporting of ethical journalism being a thing of the past. I don't know how I would have missed that story if they had reported it, unless maybe it was in the middle of that video they posted "about" the bystanders watching someone being assaulted repeatedly on the beach.