I'm not kidding; the impression I get when I read many NCR articles is that of circus sideshow, a grand caricature of the world, oddity articles attempting to paint the general by chronicling the rare...priestly abuse (in fact a rarity), white supremacists (as rare), the former priest-now-gay antique collector, the unicycling former nun who runs a bio-fuel farm, and so forth. 

If one relied on NCR for one's news, one would know only a rare and strange world, hardly representative.