Is Today Really THAT Important?

I use igoogle.com as a personal homepage and as a place for headline feeds from various news services. I get Top Stories from AP, Reuters, Fox News, and CNN. Attached is a screenshot from CNN. These are the top feeds that they chose to send to the world today.

Now, I fully understand that today is an historic day. We are inaugurating the 44th President in our country's history. This President happens to be the first African-American elected to the post in history of our country, which is a momentous occasion given some of issues that we have had to grow through.

But c'mon! If a person read/watched/listened to ONLY CNN, they would think that this was the only thing going on today; that the rest of the world was on hold while we inaugurated our new President. Are what D.C. tattoo parlors offering really more important than the developments between Fiat and Chrysler? Is it really more important than Russia returning natural gas spplies to Europe? Certainly the mayor of Portland, Oregon is breathing a sigh of relief that his pecadillos will be overshadowed by today's events.

Forgive me for straying from spiritual matters but perhaps this fits with the theme anyway. Are we looking to the Office of the President of the United States of America for the solution to so many of our problems when we should be looking to One higher than him?