Two Stories, Equal Attention

This weeks post is more or less a continuation of the last post regarding the lack of coverage of the growing crisis with Russia. To begin, yes there was a cease fire agreement reached between the rebels and Ukraine, but that by no means that this crisis is over or winding down. While there may be an absence of physical fighting, the tactics by both sides have not ceased. Our allies across the pond have continued to place sanctions, France stopped the delivery of a Russian naval vessel, and at the NATO summit held in Whales there was lobbying for Ukraine to join the organization. On the other side, Russia has continued it's rhetoric, it severely warned Ukraine against its lobbying, threatened France on its delay of the delivery, and in wake of the increased sanctions by the rest of Europe, Russia has threatened to close off its air space to European planes. Don't be surprised if all of this information is new to you.....its not your fault. Just to remind those of you who may be new to my blog, the theme behind it is our relation with Europe and how our medias vastly differ, and the reason that some of the information I laid out above might sound new to you is because the media over here has barely touched on it. Yes there was some coverage on the NATO summit but that was in correlation to the ISIL situation, and yes there was some mention of France halting its delivery of the ship but that barely lasted a day, but if you where interested enough to visit one of the major European news papers, a lot of their headlines where in regards to Russia. The most interesting thing to take away from this is the fact that Europe is dealing with ISIL too, they are probably even more effected by it, but their media has managed to split the focus between the two highly important situations. I said it in my first post and I will say it again, I am by no means taking anything away from the importance of the ISIS crisis. All I am pointing out is that even though it's not the most flashy of news stories, the American media outlets need to keep equal attention on the the situation going on in Ukraine, if the European outlets can do it so can the American ones, because this situation has potential world war implications.