Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors is the title for the patent for the Tell Lies To Your Vision (Television) and that should be our first clue. Most logical next questions are "What is it manipulating and is that why they call it programming?"
People are actually paying to be brainwashed with fear porn. I got rid of mine back in 2008 after I discovered this.

In 1966, after a parent was flipping through news channels, I realized that everything was scripted. Why would we need 4 channels saying the same exact thing?

Be observant and question everything.