She spoke about the press written in English, that is not equivalent with big names that most of the people get their news from.
In Europe there are both more native French and more native German speaking people than English speaking people. The articles MarekNYC translated from Polish showed a wide variety, and were all from major Polish news sources.
I really don't understand, why you portray the non-English press as irrelevant. Have you realised, that the main acting international organisations were the EU and the OSCE in the conflict, not NATO, not a coalition of the willing?

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers