Because CNN, FOX and all major media outlets want you to believe there is bad news erupting hourly from around the globe. One glance at CNN's main page would make one think the world is coming to an end and that two faced babies are a divine prophecy being fulfilled.
I was in the Netherlands when Geert Welders "Fitna" was released.
Weeks in advance major media around the globe condemned the film, carried radical Muslim and liberal outcries against it's release, and told of the mass racial and religious implications it would create, and the riots that would ensue. All of this without one iota of the feature every being released in advance.
ISP's declined to host the video for fear of retribution, not from radical Muslims, but from their "loyal" audience, or in other words, not wanting to bite the political hand that feeds them.
But there were others that were bold and made the video available for viewing. The truth was, in The Netherlands, prominent Muslims, however disgruntled that the bashing continues, stated that nothing that isn't already known or has been seen before over major media networks or news content internet sites (is there really a difference now?) was contained in the film. My personal opinion is it was just another Michael Moore video from an older, and much more slender man.
On the day of the release I rode a bike to the market, right past many Muslims going on about their daily business. One even waited on me at the checkout without so much as a hint of them avenging with my death. They seem quite happy, going about their daily lives. Maybe they don't watch CNN. And that Ipod stuck in their ear, it's not playing the top 100 from Baghdad, to be sure.
Remember, when CNN reports 1000 protestors hang banners from the SF Bridge, the number is only about 1/30 of the number of people that attend football games on any given day around the world. But CNN will make it seem like a country ready to explode.
So just like Tibet, when I see something on CNN, or more importantly something the Bush administration has issues with, I just go about my daily business not wishing to buy that product. I refuse to be governed by media sources, and those they cater to.
Only a week later, you won't find any current articles about the video on major news sites. It was a non-event, and not worthy of follow up, according to CNN standards.
