Please follow the link to the article below and answer the following questions:
What types of stories WERE in the news in 2013?
What types of stories WERE NOT in the news in 2013?
What does this tell you about what the American public knows?
Why does the media choose to tell us what it does and choose not to tell us the other stories?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/21170-major-parts-of-the-world-ignored-by-us-tv-news-in-2013