Barely ever. Most of the large incidents which have happened fairly recently have effectively been reported to me by friends or relatives - I just cannot be bothered to sit and be told how shit life is for 30-60 minutes by some journo who equates themselves to God, only to then have some "specialist" tell me shit that they gleaned twenty days too late from Wikipedia.
Case in point at why I don't watch the news: Last time I did, here in the UK people were queuing up to take all their savings out of the Northern Rock bank, which had hit financial difficulties; clearly a mass of people taking yet more money out of the bank wasn't going to help anyone at all.
What did the news do? It told us "not to panic" whilst sending reporters out for vox-pops with such calming questions as: "Are you here to TAKE MONEY OUT OF THE BANK NOW THAT THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO END? ARE YOU? ARE YOU? PANIC MOTHER FUCKER! PANIC LIKE I'VE JUST STABBED YOU TWICE IN THE GROIN AND TOLD YOU THAT IMMIGRANTS ARE MOVING IN NEXT DOOR TO YOUR PAEDOPHILE NEIGHBOURS!".
