Benn-why don't they report how many are starving rather than the Dow Jones

I have just been reading Tony Benn's comments to the Independent on the state of the media.

It's not so much that the media is biased. It's just what they report and what they don't report. We get the Dow Jones Industrial Average every hour. I've never met Dow Jones, but he does work very hard. Supposing every hour they publish how many people are dying of starvation in the world, how many are unemployed, how many are homeless. Debate centres round what we hear, and on the whole, the media represents what I would call a conventional view of everything."

Does he have a point? I think so