Yeah, all well and good (so to speak).
But, quite frankly, the grist for the fourth estate's mill is and generally always has been "horrible" news. The only news outlet that seems to have bucked the trend (on principle) is The Christian Science Monitor.
I suggest that in order for such news to hit print or the airwaves is that ca 0.1% of the country's population needs to have been killed or injured. Fifteen people blown up in China or 20 drowned during the monsoon in Bangladesh means nothing (to other than family and friends) and has little if any meaning half a world away — a lot like Twitter or Facebook or ....
