I am citing my former English teacher: Good media should not report what people want to read/see but what people ought to read/see. I think in the US PBS news hour gets close to that with kind of deeper analysis and discussion of things. News is not supposed to be entertainment but getting informed about what is going on and forming some kind of opinion. A typical example of how news is deteriorated is ABC's 11.30 pm Nightline, which had quality when Ted Koppel did it and is now simply superficial garbage.