He's a news watching normie as well

Really things are much worse. It is not "a normie that watching news" and even not "a news that watching normie".

Excellent Russian writer of modern times Victor Pelevin described that phenomena in excellent 1999 book "Generation П" known in the West as "Homo Zapiens" like this:

The changes in the TV image can be correlated with a virtual psychological process in which the viewer is forced to ... manage his own attention as the makers of the program manage it. This psychological process creates its own virtual subject, which for the duration of the television program exists in the place of the individual. ... what is taking place could apropriately be called the experience of collective non-existence, since the virual subject that replaces the viewer's actual consciousness is absolutely non-existent - it is merely an effect created by the collective effort of editor, cameramen and producer ... the viewer becomes a remotely controlled television program and spend a significant part of his or her life in that condition ... as a result we finally get a viewer replaced by television program watching itself, but there is already no one and no reason to notice that change.

Highly recommend to read at least "Homo Zapiens", it is really a gem of modern satire with extremely precise and exact descriptions of many things we observe in real world you never heard about.