Alceste writes: "Every news organization is selective about what it reports. This is not new; it's a big world."

Well, it is not really relevant that the phenomenon of selective reporting is "not new". Whether an entity is new or longstanding is of little matter in determining whether it is good or bad, whether it is helpful or maladaptive.

And selectivity in reporting has nothing to do with the world being big!

Selectivity in reporting is all about the agenda, the sociopolitical agenda held by editors and publishers.

Which is to say that you could have a one-page weekly newspaper that is far less biased, in its selections, than a newspaper that publishes daily with thirty pages. At issue is not the volume of world news events happening, rather it is the picking and choosing based upon wanted narratives, wanted messages, wanted perceptions, wanted destinations.