When the media reporting the news is factually owned and operated by the manufacturers of bombs, who are also well in bed with government and military agencies,

When the media reporting the news is factually owned and operated by the manufacturers of bombs, who are also well in bed with government and military agencies, then yes - pretty much every news story is misdirection away from the things that will effect that bomb-makers'/news-makers'/politician-pocketers' bottom line .. the time for paying attention to this was when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed, allowing massive wholesale capture of America's propaganda industry by its military complex. See also: the Smith-Mundt Act.