Too much violins in the streets........
You have a point, you say, "A clue to the media's motives might be the almost complete indifference to any human rights abuses around the world when they cannot be laid at the feet of America or George W. Bush."
And the motivation of the press, and the consumers of their output is the human rights abuses that can't be laid at the feet of Preznit Bush are things we can't presently do anything about.
The abuses that do lay at his feet are capable of being changed and corrected. The greatness of the US is our ability to effect change--in our laws, our culture, and to lead all these--we can change our government. Getting rid of Bush would be a great change.
Publius