Putting all the eggs in one basket

Today, if you tune into any form of media, you will be flooded with information regarding the upcoming election, scandals about the candidates and their families, or whether they like chicken or tuna. While all of this is extremely important, it seems like it's all their reporting on, and it's overshadowing many other important topics, such as how the U.S. military has pulled out of the Anbar province in Iraq, which is roughly 1/3 of the country. Or how Gustav may have missed New Orleans and the Levy's held up, but it was still the third strongest hurricane to hit the U.S., caused roughly 96% of the oil production to came to a halt resulting in a spike in gas prices, forced around 1.9 million people to be evacuated from the Louisiana area, and how most of the people who didn't evacuate are still without power or help from the government. I know that knowing about all the dirt on each candidate is important, but don't you think there are other things going on that deserve more that 10 minutes of airtime in the span of a 24 hour day?