It's one thing for a person to buy a newspaper and get his chain yanked every morning, then go about their day, typically either ignoring the stories or discussing them with other live people in person.
It's another to have the rage-farming TV source continually pumping moving video and sound into every space they enter (home, lobbies, bus/train/airport stations, etc.), and programs deliberately designed and tuned to coerce viewers' attention, and they can keep interacting with the story every day with only the announcers.
The same thing at different scale is different.
