The news articles are written by people who are increasingly detached from reality, more and more biased and more and more paid and monitored by the government.

The news articles are written by people who are increasingly detached from reality, more and more biased and more and more paid and monitored by the government. There is no easy fix to this, obviously the education has to be increased but more realistically you simply have to start following alternative media and stop relying so much on your single source(s) of truth that you implictly trust. If there is an international event regarding Russia, read both rt, cnn, drudgereport and follow and participate in discussions about it on your favorite forums. When there is a refugee crisis you can nowadays get livestreams, you dont need to read an article much later which will distort the truth for you. I remember reading about how the evil hungarian police were mistreating the refugees and then when watching the recorded livestream and reading up on some fringe websites, I saw with my own eyes how these refugees ran down barricades and threw rocks at police. There simply is no substitute to this and frankly there never was, we are fortunate to live in a time where you can do all this yourself. You used to have no other choice than to trust your newspaper when it told you about events overseas.