It maybe consumes 1-3 hours a week to skim headlines. More research as needed, and mostly focused on matters I have a direct interest in (interest as in money on the line) so it counts as work.

It’s small potatoes for time, most people spend way more on television and social media.

Fwiw, I listen to sports talk radio whenever I’m not in meetings or otherwise physically interacting with someone else at work.

The actual “news” stopped being productive to read, watch, or listen to when the term “pregnant chads” was coined. Been downhill ever since.