What is the news supposed to do?

We rely on human relief organizations to educate us as well as to provide us with a way to reach out to those in need so why is it that websites like UNHCR provide us only with information on how many victims there are so far. It is understandable that these organizations need money in order to be able to continue to help those in need but how much good does it really do when a relief website tells us only of the work they do and not the people they help or the causes they are currently involved in. As casey so intuitively pointed out, websites like cnn.com offer mostly information on upcomming political elections and nowhere on the front page does it mention issues like Darfur.