It’s unfortunate. Everything is so profit driven that sensationalism is the standard now. Investigative journalism is dead. You have to be a savvy consumer of information, understand statistics, and know how to access databases, research articles, and other primary sources to truly know what is going on. I don’t know about Europeans, but the average American cannot do this, thanks to the way public education has been destroyed over the last few decades. An uneducated populace is one that is easily manipulated. The bar has been raised, and so many people are unable to reach it because they’ve been robbed of the tools to do so.