Word.

...my words might be construed as someone who is advocating for ignorance.

Nah, it's the opposite: watching the news every day is what makes one ignorant. And that's not even because it's all bad news, it's because the mainstream media is a mouthpiece for the government.

In a 1996 speech, John Pilger, a famous investigative journalist and documentary maker explained it best:

"Some years ago, before the collapse of the Sovjet Union, a group of Russian journalists toured Britain and the United States. They were astonished to find that, after reading all the newspapers and watching all the television, that all the opinions were the same on all the vital issues. 'Now in our country', they said to their host, 'to get that result we have a dictatorship, we imprison people, we tear out their fingernails... Here you have none of that. How do you do it? What's the secret?' Well the secret of course is that propaganda in liberal democracies like America and Britain, is much more thorough than in dictatorships or totalitarian states.."