It is easy to forget that the sole purpose of news agencies isn’t to inform us.
The sole purpose is to make money.
The money is made based on how large an audience they can command. That is why you have to understand the ‘headline politics’.
Business people have to learn to follow the trends and not the headlines. We are responsible for the amount of relevant information we have.
You should be curating your own news. Collecting facts and figures from sure sources. Be guided by real facts and data, not some dramatic rendition of events.
The trends are what we should seek out and interprete and act upon.
So, what is trending?