What We Don't Know, Can't Hurt Us...?

I just got cable this week. It's a pretty interesting package too. I've got 9 channels of quality programming from VietnamTV, about 3 Chinese channels, a few Korean channels, Disney, Discovery, National Geographic, a porn-free version of Cinemax (which I didn't even know exsisted), about eleven football (er, soccer) channels, BBC and CNNWorld, in english.

So, you all can rest assured that I know what's going on in the world. For example, I know that there's gonna be a hoe-down tomorrow in Crawford. When I first saw the story on CNN, they were showing still photos of Jenna and for a second I thought "oh my god!, Jenna Bush has gone missing!", then I turned up the volume. D.C. bloggers are reporting that GW spoke to God and called off all scheduled thunderstorms near Crawford tomorrow.

And I know that Hillary isn't giving up without a fight. I think as a poor white man, I speak for myself when I say I've had enough of those elitists and they're math. But, then again, Hillary and I both finished college.

I also saw the huge press coverage of Russia's Annual Victory Day parade. That report brought on nostalgia for me, because I was at that same exact parade last year. In fact, I attended that parade every year for the last five years. But, I guess this years parade was bigger...

But to CNN's credit, they did actually have one example of solid journalism . I've been watching his reports for the past few days, and I have to say, I thought they were pretty solid. As far as I know, he's the only TV journalist that's been able to get in to Myanmar and broadcast anything. The reports were still very theatrical, that's all news these days, I guess. I think CNN has another guy in Myanmar now, but I'm not sure if he's broadcasting.

This site, based in Thailand, has some eyewitness accounts of Nargis, as well as interesting perspective on the referendum that Myanmar is currently "voting" on. It's also where I got the cartoon from above, the artist is Burmese, and he doesn't seem to pull his punches. Here, in Hanoi, I haven't seen one single report about Myanmar on the local news. It seems that even though we can't see anything, it doesn't make it look any better...