I think we should applaud them! Given that most of America (by all accounts including their "intelligence" operations seemed to use CNN to get their news in the past.

Also seeing as CNN is easily the worst news channel I have ever watched (no, take that back, Fox News) I think its great that Americans are picking up news from the internet, as at least you must be literate to write on the net. 

The internet is also multi-national. International news rather than being the main focus of the news is a quick add-on which only mentions US troops overseas or some evil foreign nation doing something detrimental to their trade, like being competitive against Boeing.

"In the online poll..."

Seems likely that an online poll is likely to favour all things internet by the fact that anyone taking it has to be on the internet to do it, of a proficient ability to do so (I know people who can log onto their email, but are lost once past basic google results), and with enough free time to fill in polls in the first place (i.e. that they're not on the internet with a motive/purpose, the sort of people who will eventually end up at daily-update sites such a news sites).