pacman001

The conclusion I’m coming to is that this, too, is an exponent of an inherent weakness: we like to be told stories. As children we like to be told stories and this remains. We now have a complete spectrum of story-telling: science fiction, fiction, non-fiction, …, and news. News reporting itself is a continuum, with tabloid gossip on one side and political coverage on the other. We have so much stories to choose from.

Every single time (some 4 times in my past life) when I’m familiar with/close to the background story of something that played out in the news I come to the same conclusion: news doesn’t report the facts. I’m in Western Europe, btw. I advise to run this experiment yourself.