User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine/@comment-1848120-20100316183557

Plus, the news stations (many of em anyway) won't focus on actual "news", most of the time it's all shock value, in order to get more ratings.

What's going to get more viewers?
 * In todays news, US forces took such and such.
 * An IED detonated and killed 5, stay tuned for details.