Nope. Actual hard work and good intentions remain visible at any level - the Nordic countries are famous for their sane politics, even though we're looking at them from a distance. Facts are just facts and the distance only helps.

Reporting bias can be effectively eliminated by collecting your data from multiple sources, i.e. visiting different web pages. Of course, you could then introduce your own bias by choosing which sites to visit, but you can at least try to be consciously aware of this and avoid it as much as possible.