We live in a stakeholder's world. A world where it requires 5 million or 10 million or sometimes many more individuals to come together in order to undo some truly heinous initiative of a handful of stakeholders. These stakeholders own all the major information outlets and the last thing they want is to have a return to truly representative democracy. The masses are to be fed but not nurtured.
So I would argue that there is no news anymore. Not in the sense of news being factual and unbiased.
If I read news on a topic that interests me, I only do so to find the links to the source material and explore that without reading the bias surrounding it. Takes more time but is infinitely more rewarding.
A number of comments here suggest getting involved locally. Good advice; it's much harder to introduce spin and bias at such a level of granularity.
It could also be that open source/free software has become so successful that Microsoft can't avoid bumping up against it anymore. The issue to fear, in my view, is legislation that would potentially eviscerate open source licensing models.
Microsoft, Red Hat, others providing money to open source initiatives is a double edged sword with good and potentially bad side effects.
Your work is genius! I hope KC3 can be adopted widely, there is great potential.