"That's what the nightly news is/always was. Short clips cobbled together with a bit of a voice over implying this or that...."
That's why I said watching commercial TVs is for entertainment. The "30 minutes news segment", if you take into account the commercial breaks, the news on sports, and the weather forecasts, there is not much time left for in-depth news reporting.
I gave up ages ago watching commercial TVs news to feed my news appetite.
