Why on this God’s earth would someone have a twitter handle of ‘catturd’? That said, he/she/it makes a good point about viewership, as folk tend to tune to the network that supports their political view.
What most folk don’t know (and the news corporations do) is that the networks leverage this tendency to emotionally hook their audience. They trade in emotions. Crafting messages, typically outrage, that create a strong emotional response. The emotional response is physiological and the body becomes dependent on the chemical response. So much for what you thought was free will.
The justness or righteousness (wokeness) of their position on an issue is carefully managed, as keeping you emotionally involved requires that they have the appearance of a moral thought leader. Should that facade fall their audience will quickly fall away as well.