I don't think I'll ever watch TV news. I tried it several years ago and just ended up sitting there weeping. Decided it wasn't for me.
That's why I read the news on the Internet now because I think the older I got the more I internalized what I was seeing in the world. I had a morbid interest in the Spitting Image puppets when I was like 9 years old.
Actually I think someone could make an Se/Fi/Te development argument for my personality if they based it sheerly on my interest in Current Events.
It's like I can't stand to not know what's going on or be involved in it somehow unless it mortifies me so much I have to pull away.
The news has become MUCH MORE sensationalist and visceral though than it was when I was growing up, and it makes it far too disturbing to watch many times.
I understand the feeling though of being emotionally overwhelmed by what I am seeing. I think that started hitting me in my early twenties.
I received Pink Floyd The Wall Live From Berlin (after the reunification of Germany) on VHS as a middle schooler and read
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot with rapt interest as a teenager.
That's my idea of a good time!
Just kidding. I do other stuff too.
I almost find it comical that people would presume only old boring people watch the news, knowing myself.