It's the narrative though. You cannot deny that western media has a narrative structure that is organized around conflict. They will always seek out and exagger

It's the narrative though. You cannot deny that western media has a narrative structure that is organized around conflict. They will always seek out and exaggerate conflicts because strife lures more viewers than harmony. If it bleeds, it leads. Even ad-free media like publicly funded institutions are prey to this in a race for eyeballs. This creates a certain kind of filter that prevents an informed populace. As someone who leans left I notice this strongly with all those "left wing" causes. They will choose a variation of that to carry that is least likely to be informing and most likely to exaggerate conflict. For example, they will put the anger and tears of Greta Thunberg and voices like hers front and center again and again, while ignoring the literally thousands of climate experts who could come and explain the facts in a sober and non-polarizing way. This is no accident, it is by design, because it gets more viewers. The end result of this is that media makes it easy to misinform and lie, hard to inform and tell the truth. This makes it easy for "the powers that be" to push a false narrative to get what they want. All they have to do is set up a conflict and the media laps it up.