You don't have to jump. There are plenty of sites with information that you could spend hours reading. The fact that you can easily move from one place to another is part of what is special about the Web. It's how the medium is used, not its inherent capabilities. Yeah, but different media are better for different things.
TV is supposed to be visual so a good TV news show has guns, fires, crack babies, etc.
C-SPAN is just talking. In a way, it's like text-heavy Web sites, which doesn't necessarily mean it sucks. A Web search engine, as dull as that may sound. I think, right now, the Web is best as an information source. The personal home page.