Not dark enough?

One of the recurring vignettes in my novel is called "CJ Watches the News," which hopes to convey the environment of horrific news in which we all live today. However, watching the news myself since finishing the book, I fear CJ gets off too easy, that the news in the book isn't dark enough, that the world I live in is far darker than the world CJ lives in. I wanted them to be more or less the same. Maybe I'm wrong. Hmm.