Yes, one could think that.
But anyone who is reasonable could have seen that this year.
Unfortunately, too many Americans do not.
Remember the plot that was recently discoverd in the UK, where the terrorists were planning to hijack ten planes headed to the US, and blow them up over US cities (initially thought they wanted to blow them up over the ocean, later fond out they wanted to do it over US cities for max damage)?
The newscycle on the original discovery was a few days, the latter one was hardly even mentioned.
The MSM was burying it, while trumpeted the "Republican corruption scandals" for weeks and months on end.
Which do you think has a bigger impact on the lives of the people?