This is why I avoid news media pretty much completely. If you study everything a few years removed you actually get a much better picture. The problem with new

This is why I avoid news media pretty much completely. If you study everything a few years removed you actually get a much better picture. The problem with news media is that people have no context what so ever and often no sense of connection. Afghanistan in 2001 fell from the clear blue sky from a non existing place to being a place that can teleport people to New York. Despite it having been in the news somewhat in the 80s. Even the people who remembered the 80s had no context of what happened in between then because nobody cared basically. A modern example is the Syrian Civil war, if you only follow the day by the news even if you do it everyday, you actually would have very little understanding what so ever. Many of the actual facts only get relieved much later.