That’s it. I’m done. I quit.As much as some readers — especially some of the commenters on the Reveille Web site — wish I were referring to my job as a columnist, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about an entirely different news medium, a medium that has in the last few years abandoned all pretense of legitimacy and journalistic integrity.I’m talking about you, TV news.To be fair, it isn’t necessarily television I hate.  There’s nothing wrong with a magical box bringing us pictures and sounds from all over the world. There’s not even anything wrong with transmitting the news using television as a medium. In fact, television offers some advantages even a good, old-fashioned newspaper can never hope to confer.In theory.In current practice, television as a medium through which to inform the public is largely dead.  Other than a few precious hours on the major networks — and a boring but informative bastion holding out on PBS — television has become the realm of personalities and dogma, a place where facts are fluid and the truth is irrelevant.Fox News is biased to the right — a boiling pot for knee-jerk anti-liberal, anti-Democratic, anti-Obama sentiments that occasionally boils over with the venom spewed by its gut-reactionary rabble-rousers.  MSNBC is biased to the left — an ivory tower of egalitarianism, a refuge for Democrats to retreat to when they’re tired of answering tough questions about health care reform.CNN doesn’t have a bias — because it’s too busy not reporting.  In place of research and analysis or good, old-fashioned journalistic moxie, they substitute a ticker and a never-ending plea for viewers to make their own analysis via Twitter, Facebook or MySpace.These, of course, are overly simple judgments. Far too much is wrong with television to be compiled in a single source, let alone a 600-word column.So instead of a list, allow me to just say I’m quitting it. I am officially, as of this column, boycotting cable news channels.I’m just too tired of it.  I’m tired of the bias, tired of the yelling, tired of the entertainment over thought.I’m tired of watching Nancy Grace make verdicts on cases that have barely begun to be investigated, turning the sentiments of the country against justice to grab ratings.  I’m tired of watching A.J. Hammer during primetime dissecting Michael Jackson’s funeral service while protesters are brutalized in Iran, North Korea wields nukes like a spoiled child and our nation’s debt spirals out of control.I’m tired of watching the endless array of Rush Limbaugh clones smirk on the sidelines of politics, blasting politicians for their failures while utterly failing to propose solutions.I’m tired of watching the partisan pundits tell us there are two Americas — conservative and liberal  — that cannot or will not be reconciled, that whoever sits on the other side of the ideological no-man’s land is not just wrong but evil and stupid.But most of all, I refuse to believe this mockery of journalism accurately reflects what we as a country want.Whether we like it or not, television media is a business, driven solely by the prospect of profit.  What we see on television is what the network executives believe we want to see. This is why I’m boycotting.It certainly isn’t what I want to see, and I have a feeling it’s not what our generation as a whole wants to see either.There is overwhelming evidence our generation is turning in greater numbers to the Internet as a source of news.  It’s probably largely because our generation loves technology and loves the convenience and instantaneousness of the Internet.But maybe it’s also a little bit because we’re tired of watching Sean Hannity and Keith Olberman rant about a divided America we do not believe in, and we’re tired of watching media personalities entertain instead of inform.If college students honestly enjoy the TV news environment in which we currently reside, so be it.  If I’m just an angry loner raving about non-existant problems, then I hope this column disappears into obscurity and the status quo survives unscathed.But if somebody else thinks TV news needs to be changed, then maybe they’ll join me in a boycott.Matthew Albright is a 20-year-old mass communication junior from Baton Rouge. Follow him on Twitter@TDR_malbright.—-Contact Matthew Albright at [email protected]