Who would be helped if Americans knew what a crisis

[memphis]

Media playing this down? Are you kidding me? It's all over the news and the papers. Here's a crisis the media severely underreported: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War

Note you are pretty much the only person who has rejected my premise so far...


And the current top story on the CNN America homepage... Do it yourselfers refuse to wait for electric cars... ewwwww, that sounds important.

I don't mind being the only person not buying into a faulty premise. The oil crisis in America is a huge story and its repurcussions need to be reported. The Russia story is the first two non-lede stories on CNN and the story is on the front page of nearly every newspaper from the New York Times down to my local Memphis paper. What do you want, town criers?

[Nym90]

It probably would be getting more coverage if it weren't for the Olympics. But nothing can compete with the Olympics.

It is getting more coverage in international media... way more.

As far as I can tell NPR is the only US media outlet giving it a significant portion of its airtime.

But wait, I thought NPR had this massive liberal bias. Hmmmmm.

They always have focused more on international issues than most media outlets (which is a big part of the reason why they are perceived as liberal).

It honestly does help if you read everything I say, Eric.

I realize you said earlier you weren't charging a left wing conspiracy. Never said you were, but many others do.

Just pointing out maybe NPR isn't as liberal as thought. They choose to cover different topics than most media outlets, but I don't see how that makes them more liberal; they just don't care about ratings like for-profit media sources must, and thus don't have to appeal to the lowest common denominator and focus on shock value.

Now they do lean to the left on one political issue (for obvious reasons); government financing for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. You could argue that the entire concept of government funded media that isn't ratings driven is in and of itself liberal, and you'd be correct.

Bottom line with the media is....the bottom line. This conflict isn't exciting to the average American, and hence any media that relies on ratings for revenue isn't going to cover it much. They are simply doing that which will net them the greatest profits, which is of course what businesses do.