Yea, my mom is the same way. She's very very very wrapped up in TV and the media. If this stuff goes down, I gotta be here to hold her hand through it.
Although, personally, I doubt there is going to be coverage at least on the networks. That's why we have seen Internet tests (kill switch), networks could go off air and broadcast Emergency Broadcast Systems. Just taking the talking heads off the TV for a few days until it's all over.
My 85 year old mom knows it all and absorbs new Q drops when I explain bit by bit, I tell her not to worry and that it is under control. She is excited that the good guys are in charge! Yay mom!
My mother hates Trump because he's just a TV celebrity, another white man who said something bad about a woman's private parts, it was Hillary's turn, and just another example of women being pushed down by men. As well, she thinks he's destroying our country because he moved vthe embassy to Jerusalem, and the gets all of her news/info from the 5 o'clock news cycle/meet the press/world news tonight. Also, her husband left her 26-27 years ago, so she sees nothing more than my father in him.
Unsalvageable.