I would say it's a slow news week, I mean yeah it's big for this part of the country but not THAT big. The POTUS is on vacation so the news piranhas are just chomping at the bit for anything "new worthy"
I think it has more to do with the fact that people care more about news involving the Kardashian wedding and earthquakes, rather than Gaddafi/Libya or the district attorney dropping the rape case against DSK.