Someone asked me how come TV news is airing so much incorrect & inaccurate info

I said its because of these reasons.
1. For many, editors, anchors & reporters, this is the first really big story facing them. Maybe the last one was 26/11 where TV made some blunders...

2. TV has completely lost any semblance of checks and balances that come with news. In the rush to be ‘first’ (which no one is, TV has lost the race to digital) and also because anchors decide on air what they want to say...

and there is no way to stop them. 3. And because lead anchors are mostly also channel editors, they are left unchallenged by internal staff (very young, thrown into roles they are incapable of fulfilling) because everyone reports to them...

4. The most publicly obvious reason is that the easiest and cheapest way is to start a polarising studio fight with a standard set of people who know nothing about the topic ( #Covid_19 is best example)...

5. But also the fact that despite being called out for incorrect news, the viewer continues to watch these channels because he is very happy to have his most basic instinct catered to. Screw the news. Bring on the entertainment