Headline - "US Death toll jumps to 36"

This is the top headline off the Google News site. Should I be shocked that a genius of a company like Google is using such an inefficient algorithm that picks off partisan headlines or should I resign myself to the arithmetic that an American life will always be valued more than any other nationality ? Or am I reading this wrong ?
The day the Tsunami struck, I flipped through channels frantically hoping for some news, any news of my country. There wasn't a beep about this out of any of the news casters about it. They served the same predictable platter about weather, travel and sales. And now, every news channel is clawing to find the saddest tale, the goriest body and glorious episodes of the American survival.
Don't news channels portray the kind of people living in that region? I am sure that only after extensive marketing analysis and statistical surveys would they mould their news to cater to the audience. So does this not mean that the average American does not care about anything else but the weather, travel and sales ? What he does care about is "American Values" apparently. George Bush wants us to believe that it is these values that will help tsunami affected people survive. You arrive last, with the paltriest of sums and want the golden crown of Charity, because you proclaim to have some special "values" ? And now the Islamic states are supposed to have the privilege of seeing them in action as they perform their Boy scouts deed. Is that why they have come to aid ? To make sure the world knows they are there ? If this isn't the heights of narcissism, then what is? Bah! To say I feel disgusted is putting it lightly. Even after such a devastation of unimaginable magnitude, if one cannot forget the Self, it is indeed pitiable.

Subbu