TMB, in my house it is in the closet, and everybody knows it is only for special use, and one must ask before shlepping it out and setting it up with the antenna.
The fact is that in any emergency, a live person on TV will have more up to date info then a web news site. It takes time to type out an article and format a page with correct fonts, and upload it, etc. It is not the same thing as a reporter talking to an expert, live, in real time, which is virtually instantaneous. Many times a web site will copy from another site, etc.
There is also nothing wrong with educating one’s kids to listen to a State of the Union address and see the gov’t in action. One learns respect for the country and its system of government. Whether or not one likes Obama is irrelevant here.
The fact that the RBSH allowed this technology to be created, and the tremendous chochma that the engineers and scientists developed during the past 60 years to make this feat possible of transmitting pictures and sounds thousands of miles means it is worth something. Kol mah shebara HKBH b’olamo lo bara davar echad lbatalah. There is a similar mishna in Avos something like ein lcha davar sh’ein lo shaah.
It is an amazing technology, and it has its purposes. Like anything else, it can be used for good or for bad. Same with books.