Best Before News

What is it with today's news? When did news get a best before stamp? Take the example of Japan; the day and the few days after that it was on every front page and people felt sorry for them. What happened after that? I'll tell you, the news was back to the normal uninteresting unnecessary titles. It makes me sick! Well, now the news is about the nuclear plant not about the actual people living in the country because it doesn't bother us... If you take a look at Google Earth you'll see that there's at least one earthquake in Japan with quite high magnitude everyday. Is that in the news? No...