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.
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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