[im3w1l]

A huge part of narrative building is story selection. If there are groups A, B, C all of which do good and bad stuff to each other, media will create a narrative by highlighting again and again bad things that A does to B, leaving out the good things, leaving out what B does, and leaving out C entirely.

[mormegil]

Definitely. And with today's vast amount of information and stories available, it's not difficult to do so. It's nicely explained in https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chin...