American Media: The Image or the Mirror?

I was reading news this morning and noticed a headline about the ongoing tribal violence in Kenya. After I read the article, which was located on the BBC's website, I started wondering if any American news services were covering the same story. Being the inquisitive person that I am, rather than simply wondering, I investigated.

First on the list: CNN. I navigated from the US section to the main page to the "WORLD" section. On all three the headline was about the Democratic Primary race in South Carolina. Since when is that world news?!?! A 30 second search of this page and I couldn't find any reference to the conflict in Kenya (I figure that's more than the average American would spend, and the average one wouldn't be looking for that specific article.)

Next for the chopping block was Fox News: They actually had "world" events on their world page. Fox also had an article about the Kenyan conflict too. However, it was buried in a list of about 30 minor articles at the bottom, I'm still not impressed.

Last of all was Reuters (which I didn't check until later, I started this blog post about 9:15 am). Unfortunately for the sake of this post, Reuters had a fairly large feature about the Kenyan situation. At this, I returned to FoxNews and CNN, which even more unfortunately for this post, now have featured articles on the world section of their websites.

But, for the sake of the first half of this blog, lets say that's not true. I was going to go on a bit of a rant on how either the American media or Americans in general have little interest in what's going outside of their own little world. The title raising the question of whether its the media that doesn't care and the general public follows, or if the media is simply catering to what Americans are interested in. But in any case, I have some news articles to read about what's going on in Kenya :D.