The problem is that “news” is not a random sampling of all events. It is biased by the very fact that someone has to decide the event is notable. And even if y

The problem is that “news” is not a random sampling of all events. It is biased by the very fact that someone has to decide the event is notable. And even if you were to witness a random sampling of all events via some kind of clockwork orange mechanism, your brain has saliency biases as well. You might find the wiki page on cognitive bias interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias