Egypt Uprising One Big Commercial For Social Networking?

Is it me or does it seem that the recent unrest and protests in Egypt appear to be one long, very long commercial for social networking and Twitter, Facebook and the rest? I mean, it does appear that after the government in Egypt shut down the internet, all the newscasters talk about is the "news" they are getting through the social networking sites, with now even "experts" in social networking giving their perspective alongside those highly paid political analysts and commentators.

I mean, ever since this uprising began it has dominated our news on ever single station, and it is not like there is not other true, hard news stories regarding the United States and what is happening on our shores.

This global media really has also lost its way, a media that is fed mainly with U.S. dollars yet the concerns of Egyptians, rather than Americans, seems to be now in its second straight week with no real end in sight.

Most Americans are unaware of what is going on in their contiguous states and regions, and even less concerned with Egypt and its problems rather than their own country's. And the fact that the Egyptian government is so very dissimilar to our own, which is based more on the British form of government than that of the U.S., with a Parliament rather than a Congress, and no "states" to speak of.

Now the news that the U.S. would recognize and "deal" with a "representative" government in Egypt? Say what?

There hasn't been a representative government in the good old U.S.A. due to our campaign finance laws which are diametrically opposed to a representative government as intended in our Constitution in literally decades.

And in a country in which there is clearly a "national" religion quite different than the religions primarily practiced in the United States, so how can our country and its leadership even begin to understand all the various complexities of what is now going on in Egypt, not to mention those news readers.

The Middle East certainly is a hotbed of political unrest, that much is for certain. And getting worse, with each passing year since the 1960's at the very least.

I guess that is the only similarity between it and what has been occuring in the United States in our government's attempts to quash dissent, and those with opposing views from the two parties who have remained in charge against the will of more and more Americans and the ever increasing "independents."

Notice too how "Facebook evidence" is factoring in more and more crimes in America. Supposed posts published that who knows who REALLY made them but released as "evidence" then later after-the-fact.

Using civil disobedience and unrest once again to promote instead the tech industry? In 140 characters or less...

Not sound bites. But sound bits.

Twitter that.