What is with this culture of ours?

Today, CNN Headline News, as usual, gave what they thought were the principal headlines of the day. No surprise that first place went to the little plane that strayed too close to the White House. (Big coverage of this event is understandable, and let's also give credit that they didn't shoot those two fellows out of the air.) Then of course Michael Jackson got his usual top billing (Let's see, five days a week times an estimated five month trial equals...?) So there was no room for any headline mention of the fact that Iraq was again blowing up (the BBC called it a day of "carnage") or the fact that enraged Muslims were pouring into the streets of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to protest after Newsweek reported desecration of the Koran in Guantanamo.
This land is your land, this land is my land...and the National Enquirer sets the standards.