Yes, you've fallen into an Information Trap. Which is not serious, but it is debilitating. (I do it too.)
I suggest that you let go of the BBC (which is not as neutral as one might be led to think). And, I honestly suggest that you get a subscription to the Economist. Which tries to straddle both Left and Right - thus, by doing so, comes right down in the middle.
I am Center Left so I read much of the Guardian. I read occassionaly the NYT or WashPo, but american journalism is in a such a sorry state, that is has little continuity. All that matters is what can capture the eye today, right now.
Because it is far too heavily commercialized. As is mostly everything. If you can't put a price-tag stateside on an object or a subject, then general interest is sub-zero. Americans only understand one yardstick: Money, money, money. (Or, worse yet: Food, food, food.)
This is no subliminal joke. The attachment to monetary value has resulted in Generalized News Inflation. All news is Prime Time, and thrust at a hungry-public that revels in its consumption. Which is why my fellow Yanks move from subject to subject, hit a high, and then move onto another. Without the slightest pause and discussion of "What does it mean?". Or, "Is it important?". Or "Maybe we should discuss this in both finer and larger detail".
We are living at light-speed. Meaning this: "History is five minutes ago, and Ancient History is yesterday". Forget, move on, anyway the subject will come around again soon enough ... and, after a five minutes of consideration, "We'll move on again anyway".
George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher (paraphrased):
Those who forget the meaning of history are condemned to repeat it ...
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