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Content: I’m not saying what happened isn’t newsworthy, but we all know 24/7 coverage creates this echo chamber.) People also end up extrapolating from sensational coverage and assume that what they read is the only thing going on. It’s how biases are formed. It’s why people who have never been to France think “they all hate Americans” or “the French are all rude.” Or why many Americans stillthink Colombia is this dangerous narco-state they heard about throughout the 1980s. Once engrained, these mistaken perceptions are hard to change. ( And it’s not just Americans who do this. Every country around the world has conceptions about all the others!) Combined with all the fake news on the web and how people only seem to absorb that which confirms their preconceptions, it’s easy to see why Europe looks bad. This is what is happening now.