Serbia is a good example, because whenever anything newsworthy happens in Serbia it's probably some sort of conflict between the local ethnic groups, and if you

Serbia is a good example, because whenever anything newsworthy happens in Serbia it's probably some sort of conflict between the local ethnic groups, and if you're relying on locals for information you'll find that their view of the incidents will vary greatly depending on which side they're on. And that's just natural bias -- imagine what happens when you throw in folks who are deliberately sowing misinformation, for one reason or another. It would take hours to sort through all the news reports coming in from Serbia, determine who are the more and less trustworthy sources, and put it all together into some coherent narrative, and I don't have time to do that for every controversial news story that happens in the world! I'd be happy to pay a dollar a day for a relatively trustworthy newspaper to hire journalists to do this sort of thing for me.