Ukraine

Notice how the Ukraine news is no longer in the news much on TV.  What happened?  First, TV is about making money.  It does that by getting viewers and selling advertising.  Most people are pretty dumb about history and could not tell you where the Ukraine is, much less the Crimea.  On top of that, it is pretty complicated about who was part of what over the course of history in that area.  Second, we don't want to look bad.  We told the Ukraine they did not need a lot of weapons because we would take care of them if stuff happened.  It happened.  We did not.  Third, there is a lot of Russian money in our stock market.  Big American investors, insurance, pension plans, local governments, do not want the market to go down.  Put sanctions on the Russians and the market will drop.  The public prefers everything black and white, though we will go for a mystery if we think it can be solved.  Thus the lost airline is top news.  It gets everyone talking with opinions to explain what happened.  Less opinions about the Ukraine because we know that we don't know much.  We don't like to look stupid and uneducated.  So we tweet on about our shallow lives.