in almost a decade, I can only advise that you simply don't watch the coverage.
Trust me, you can be at least as well informed from other sources.
I moved, after a divorce, in 2008 to another part of the country from where I'd been living. There were several reasons that entered into my decision not to have a TV. The first was cost. I'd need to purchase a TV, and if I was going to have one I was going to have cable (if only for the improved reception) and I didn't feel I could afford it -- either the TV itself or the cost of cable. A trivial (but important to me) additional reason was that the only place to locate a TV in the apartment I'd rented was directly in front of the only window in the living room. Two problems here: I'd need to block the only window, and I'd still be staring into strong daylight most of the time. Didn't make any sense to me.
At the time I viewed doing without TV as an experiment, even though this was at least the third time in my adult life I was forswearing television. Those earlier times were before the internet. This time, to my great pleasure, I discovered that I could watch a lot of conventional TV on the internet. Things like the national conventions in 2008, 2012, and 2016. Things like breaking news. I learned that if I heard of a breaking news story somewhere, I could find out what the local TV stations were, and much of the time they'd have gone to live streaming. In a pinch there were the traditional network news outlets.
I am somewhat behind on a lot of broadcast entertainment shows, which can be a bit of a shame. But since I've been out of step on such things much of my life, I don't really care. I catch up when I can. Meanwhile, I read a lot of books.
One of my earlier times without TV, in the 1970's, a coworker was totally convinced that I was, without TV, completely outside of mainstream knowledge of current events. He'd periodically quiz me, and was always astonished that I generally knew exactly what was going on, and often knew a whole lot more besides. Why? I read books. I still do. I happen to be interested in almost everything, and read at least as much non fiction as fiction. And I read a lot. So I tend to know what's going on in the world.
Recently a friend posted on FB the information about the Supreme Court decision in 1943 that said no one can be forced to participate in patriotic rituals. To him (and he's now 69 years old) it was breaking news. I've been aware of this for decades, perhaps because I do not depend on regular, mainstream media, for information.
Think about it.
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