mP, what you said is nonsensical.
It is a commonly accepted practice for news media to give priority to reporting what its consumers will actually experience when they step outside of their front door. Each person actually IS the center of their world, from their perspective. This is not unique to Americans. I noticed that UK media have a lot of coverage about a family of characters in the UK who live on the public dole, whom they call the Royals. But I rarely see the Daily Mail or Telegraph have coverage about the royal family of Thailand, or Burundi.
If you choose to be sad about this phenomenon as it applies to the Sandy storm, that's your right.
Good luck with that.