Yes! It's actually very rare for news stories to be presented to the public in straightforward chronological order. It's a huge problem for both comprehension and empathy.
https://www.vulture.com/2021/02/review-framing-britney-spears-documentary.html
Journalists typically organize stories according to salience, the famous "inverted pyramid." The first paragraph is the most relevant information, followed by the second most and so on.
It makes sense for hard news and ongoing stories, but it also deliberately buries context. You only learn the basic facts in the last few paragraphs of the story, often out of order and separated from the rest of the information.
As a result, people learn stories in reverse order. What happened today, then what happened yesterday, then all the events that got us here. If you miss a few days of coverage, the narrative thread can get away from you.
I don't know how to fix this, but it's a huge reason we get so many stories wrong as a culture. When you hear a story chronologically, you can see where the holes are, where protagonists' motivations are missing or don't seem credible.
Was Amy Fisher a conniving teenage seductress? Or was she a teenager with a crush that got way out of hand?

It's a lot easier to hear her story as the latter when you meet her as a lonely 15-year old than when you meet her as a delinquent charged with a crime.
The same goes for Monica Lewinsky. Do you meet her at the beginning of the story, when she's a 22-year-old intern with a crush on her boss? Or do you meet her at the end, when she's an alleged accomplice to obstruction of justice?
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