However, until then, not much ever seems to change. I have found that it is very easy for any of us to be very selective in believing what we want to believe and I have found that to believe someone who is diametrically opposed to our already thought out ideas is nearly impossible to do. What concerns me is the entertainment or profit value of news seems to be the most important thing. Most local news media seem to have that view. A new animal at a local zoo is given more coverage than a civil war in Sudan, or a single soldier killed in East Timor is given more coverage than ethnic cleansing of thousands in Maluku.
News seems to be less about really important things and more about 'news entertainment'.
Media these days seems to be about giving the audience what they want, forgetting the real tradgedies happening all the time. The reason why this is so is obvious. Reporters are people who are working for people who are themselves working for other people who are influenced by other people of high government positions who are themselves controlled by their governments' local, state, national, and foreign policies. The best an individual can do is to get information from various of other sources. But, even those other sources are never unbiased.