It's a failure of our eduction system, but it's also a complete failure of traditional media. My guess is that it is because most major traditional media outle

It's a failure of our eduction system, but it's also a complete failure of traditional media. My guess is that it is because most major traditional media outlets are national entities. It's easier for those national media entities to talk about a government that appears relevant to their entire audience (the federal government), instead of 50+ articles each scoped at the state level. This damages peoples' ability to do correct sensemaking because they overweighting entertainment sources as if they were data sources.