Your view of everything is skewed. As a rule, almost everything works "well". Crime is rare, legal disputes are usually settled sensibly, politicians work hard etc.
News is about the exceptions to the rule. "Everything Normal" does not make an interesting headline.
Yes, averaged across the entire population thinks work reasonably well, but among critical subsets of the population (like the technologically savvy) the picture isn't so rosy. For example, does almost everything work well in the realm of P2P mass lawsuits and college student settlement shakedowns? Are there millions of college students successfully defending themselves against shakedown letters not getting any news attention?
News is about the exceptions to the rule. "Everything Normal" does not make an interesting headline.