Agreed, to a certain extent. But it's not just the media. It's also Americans themselves. Very few people in America pay attention to anything going on outside of their borders, except if they could lose money over it. There were very few (if any) news stories on televised news programs about Yemen, but the same thing happened during the genocide in Africa years ago. Nada. Not a word. It wasn't until people started shaming the TV news channels that they started covering it.

I'm quick to defend the media, because I see it as individual reporters working hard to report truthfully and ethically, which dictators and autocrats threaten them with their lives. So there is a distinction to be made here ...