IMO, news serves the same purpose as zip files... A concise yet accurate representation of the whole. What we have today is curve fitting of events to a narrat

IMO, news serves the same purpose as zip files... A concise yet accurate representation of the whole. What we have today is curve fitting of events to a narrative, taking only the sentences which create a permutation to support the bias, not seeking summation. And/or the curve fits an emotional goal(ie to scare readers into action). But we can measure zip's efficiency, but it's harder to measure the true accuracy of events when summarizing, because different points are of varying levels of importance to different people. This has led me to pay attention to the signal and ignore the noise; watching the full speeches, and viewing the sources myself, but most people aren't so inclined, they just shriek & rage, baited by an inaccurate context shrinker. Thus, we have hyper informed people who watch full context, as well as severely misinformed folks, getting bad recaps. It is like the income disparity gap with information.