Keep in mind that the authorities in many areas do not want the public at large knowing what is going on, and actively seek technologies such as data terminals and encryption to make it harder and harder for you to get real time information from any source.

Some of this is legit, but most of it is that they just don't want people knowing what is going on except for the official stories that are almost always useless for basing any kind of decisions on, and often times misleading, or downright false.

They even flat out lie on a regular basis to the press, who dutifully report such lies as facts.