I'd classify reading something in a newspaper under "personal experience", the news are mostly written in a way to invoke emotional responses. In contrast to,

I'd classify reading something in a newspaper under "personal experience", the news are mostly written in a way to invoke emotional responses. In contrast to, say, looking at the actual data and crunch the numbers yourself to try and get an educated view This is obviously not very practical but at least then you could hold your opinions with good conscience