This happens when elites define news

Conservatives in the US have been frustrated for years by the Western media or "mainstream media" who find it necessary to inject their own political viewpoint into the news. The news is no longer news, but only the politics of the "intellectual elite".

As an American writer researching topics for articles I am authoring about Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland, I am fascinated by the large numbers of similarities I find in daily life in China and the US. Most people would be surprised at all that we have things in common. The Western media would like to drive a wedge between our cultures and focus people's attention on what they perceive as all of our differences.