What is point of watching the news?

I read some articles on the trial, but no where did I see it mentioned that Jerry Sandusky was a closeted gay man. He engaged in sexual relationships with underage boys, so he's a child molester/child rapist. The boys were men when their stories became known. 

Why didn't they tell anyone? Were they afraid of being labeled"gay" in the eyes of peers? Did they want to protect Jerry Sandusky because they cared for him? Why did Joe Paterno let the boys' abuse be covered up? Was JoePa gay? Did JoePa like to have sex with little boys, too? Did Jerry and Joe share a perverted secret?

There are days that I wonder about what is reported in the news. How much of it is verified as fact? How many facts are left out of the story to give biased spin? What questions were asked when doing the story? What questions weren't asked when doing the story? Were the sources biased? Were the sources vetted?

We live in a 24/7 news world where everyone can don the reporter handle and blog about whatever they feel needs to be set loose upon the clutternet.

Amazingly, major news sites have been known to use The Onion as a source for some of their stories.

There's been a lot of spin about who is a bigger offshorer of American jobs, but the term being bandied about is "out sourcer in chief." Most Americans outsource their dry cleaning, food gathering, energy generation, communications network, entertainment, and children's education, so the latter term seems to be a stupid one to be used by President Obama, because using his logic everyone that owns a television is outsourcing, thus evil.