Obama, MacCain, Clinton, yada, yada.

The boring and overly extended lead up to the internal US of A election dominates the western news. (Even extended coverage of a party convention, where the leader is already chosen, gets prinme time space. Figure that one out).

While important to Americans, and possibly somewhat importtant to some Global Nations, are there not more important, more mentally stimulating and more interesting World news stories out there?

Is the Western media becomming increaingly controlled by US of A government/media interests? Even the BBC and CBC (not to mention Mudcat:) seems to give an increasingly large amount of time to this over-extended "election soap opera".

Or,are the media and reporters just getting lazy?