The news does NOT accurately depict a state of living within a country state or territory

The media always has a bias. In most democracies it has a Left Wing bias, as few democracies have a media with an extremely strong Right Wing bias. The US is an exception, if it can be called a true democracy, as in recent decades it appears to be a nation of two tribes, each violently opposed to one another, defying logic and facts, with both strong Right and Left Wing media protagonists. Consequently in most democracies the media bias will favour the ruling party, if they are Left Wing, and oppose a Right Wing party. In a tilted playing field and a sparsity of facts, it is difficult for the average Joe to dig deep and find the truth behind what the media delivers to us.