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I agree. It's even more than that. There are extreme and negative circumstances that happen every year. It's the media who decides which one of those events that is supposed to be the focus of everyone's existence. 2016 is the year that I became more skeptical of the media.I think this highlights the issue of media portrayal of the world. We get a heavily biased view of the world state based on extreme and negative circumstances - disasters and atrocities are all newsworthy and these days shoved down our throats. But that view is not the view of the actual world it's a massive corruption and distortion and leads us to assume it's not only true but representative. NO IT IS NOT