The G20 Summit or Becali?

Being here were I have been for the past seven months, I am connected, whether I want it or not, whether I'm interested or not, to the events that they (and by they I mean the British press)consider relevant and important enough to be presented in details.

It's been awhile, and I'm not proud of that, since the last time I have read the Romanian Newspapers, or checked the Romanian News sites.
Today, I went to antena3.com to see how this very important G20 summit (at least for the English people and apparently for the rest of the world) was presented by the Romanian press. No front page title on this subject. Just a short mention in the External news section about the present received by the Queen from Michele Obama.
I move to another one, realitatea.net; nothing here and either on the other three newspaper's sites I used to read back home, except for a note from the news agency in a column, next to the news of the European Film Festival. And finally I find something on my seventh choice: a list of the summit's conclusions.

Even considering that this is not an extremely important subject for the Romanian people and that these measures, decided by the most powerful 20 people in the whole world, are not going to affect Romania in the next few weeks, or months, even considering that all those conclusions and presumably to be taken measures presented there are just words and empty promises, I still can't understand how the news about Becali getting arrested after his car being stolen(news that appears on the first page of every newspaper or news site) would have been more important that this.

I find hard to believe that the only interesting thing about this event is the present offered to the Queen by the First Lady of America.

But suddenly I understand that this is the level of the Romanian public. And this is because of the level of the press. It's a vicious circle that keeps going round and round, growing bigger and stronger because news like gossips and scandals (all sort of) sell.
Since I got here I forgot all about political scandals, because here I find out about measures being took when a child is abused, about no corruption, at least when people's sake is at stake, about reducing the limit of the political people's claim expenses because of the financial crisis instead of blocking the increase in pensions or teacher's salaries.

From here to the habit of transforming very low people in subjects of national interest is exactly the way from a joke-press to the watch-dog of the society.