The issues you raise of cause and effect require greater consideration, which doubtfully can be expected from the corporate media. The media in my experience have mostly conservative business-orientated but perhaps globalization from above has significantly changed their character and motivations in ways not generally understood.

Stable, democratic government is hardest to maintain in resource-rich “developing” countries because resource-hungry “developed” countries channel funds, weapons and provocateurs to divide and conquer locals. The propped conquerer is usually a member of a minority community with a proclivity to tyranny and greed. This is the most “economic” way for “civilized” nations like yours and mine to steal natural resources from poor, “backward” people.

Corporate media reports on every such country with that familiar “Why can’t they get their act together?” tone, always omitting the names of individuals, companies and countries who stand to gain the most from tyranny. This is the most “economic” way to keep us sheeple oblivious, so we will go out and fill our tanks with gas, untroubled by the blood spilled for our comforts. A fine example of this, besides East Timor, is the news coverage of Burma’s recent atrocities. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I heard nary a word in any mainstream report about the many British, French, Austrailian, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Indonesian etc. companies doing business with the tyrants.

As Pogo once said, “We have seen the enemy, and he is us!”