Mubarak leaves office will US news report other things now?

While we may be happy for the people of Egypt on this day they earned a future of true democracy, the US media has been forgetting about news right here in this country.

Egypt unrest: Mubarak has resigned, VP says

Soldiers watch impassively as protesters flow into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday morning.
February 11th, 2011
11:01 AM ET



The latest developments, as confirmed by CNN, on the uprising in Egypt. Demonstrators have taken to the streets of Egypt's major cities for two weeks to demand an end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. Check out our full coverage and the latest tweets from CNN correspondents on the ground.

[Update 6:01 p.m. in Cairo, 11:01 a.m. ET] President Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down from the presidency of Egypt, Vice President Omar Suleiman said.
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Mubarak has resigned,

Cable news stations have focused on all of this while ignoring everything happening here. Stories like the VA hospital being built in Lake Nona Florida being surrounded by federal agents, arrests of illegal aliens and steel made in China instead of US steel being used, was not an issue important enough for then to cover. Now maybe they will have some time to report on what is happening here or at least change their claim of being national news into international news.