answer:In the short term, Crimea and Putin are more important since things going badly there has humans on the brink, again, of destroying the only home we know. News about the Universe, that has long term importance because we’ll likely need a place to go when we’ve destroyed the only planet we know as home. Yes, it is sad that those two agendas are backwards, since giving media time to the Universe tends to make most humans more cooperative in a we’re all in this together kind of way.