For some years my morning routine has included about 40 minutes of listening to the news on KXL, which provided a good mix of local and national news reports. KXL played the CBS national news for four minutes on the hour and one minute on the half-hour, not counting commercial announcements. Then maybe two or three years ago, KXL dropped the last minute of the on-the-hour news, but it was still a good balance.
In the last month or two KXL has switched from the CBS news reports to the Fox reports: it still runs one minute on the half-hour, but runs only one minute of the Fox national report on the hour. (And that one minute may be all that Fox provides its affiliates.) It's not enough airtime for me to call it national "news" any more. I was not pleased, and I'm looking for another news station to start my day with. (Any suggestions?)
Then it occurred to me: just because "news" started life as a partitive noun doesn't mean it has to remain one. While I search for another station to listen to, I think of the Fox report in the singular -- "fair and balanced new" -- as more aptly describing its small portions, and I smile.