I suggest you have confused entertainment (newtainment as I call it) with journalism. Fox and CNN are the leading examples (with many more) of the newtainment variety. They are all about entertainment with no real journalistic attributes.
As for the historical prospective---that can easily be shown as inaccurate by any student of American history---a good start would be the Presidency of John Adams.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis