I'm not going to defend CNN or MSNBC, but the news is not binary, as so it is often presented here on the board. There are some segments of Fox, the straight up reporting, for example, that is more or less impartial. But the stuff most conservatives reference in conversation is coming from the likes Tucker and Sean, and those dudes are absolute hacks. The real problem with Fox is that it has created this false narrative that all mainstream news is biased, ergo if everything is biased then why not let sources that reflect your worldview further inform your opinions? When that wasn't enough they began to attack facts, and by that I mean the most basic of facts, as in "this guy said this, here's a video of him saying it..."
We as a nation can't debate the issues, in part, because we can't even agree on the facts. To be sure, politics is all about pivoting away from the issues, but the everyday conservative has mastered the "whataboutism" pivot to any serious question. I'm not suggesting the left is innocent, but I have lived my entire life in conservative states, and one of the biggest changes has been the sudden prevalence of the whataboutism as a conservative talking point. No matter the subject, nor how pressing, everything pivots on a whataboutism. It is the most childish response to an adult conversation, but I suppose if the goal is to derail adult conversation, then it is exceedingly effective.