Tuesday, July 26, 2005

BTW, there's still a genocide going on in Darfur...

even if the President and the news media choose to ignore it:

Minutes on the networks' evening newscasts devoted to Darfur last year:
ABC: 18
NBC: 5
CBS: 3
Total: 26 fucking minutes all of last year devoted to the systematic killing and raping of millions of human beings.

Minutes devoted to the trials and tribulations of Martha Stewart: 130

The cable networks were no better; combined, they ran 55 times more stories about Michael Jackson than Darfur.

*Stats from the Tyndall Report,
as quoted in Nicholas Kristof's latest column.

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