There is something so fundamentally flawed with today's news/media. Perhaps the most politically volatile and critical issue of this decade (at least) is occurring in Iran and the place to really feel the emotion and intensity of people's interest is on twitter. On sites like CNN, MSNBC, etc., it's the usual bullshit blend of news and pop culture. I couldn't believe that i just hit msnbc.com and a picture of Phil Mickleson had the biggest presence on the page. Pathetic!

I know what you mean.Lately ,I have been listening to talk radio,mostley Mark Levine (author of Liberty and Tyranny) and Michael Savage.

There are four main reasons that I stopped subscribing to my local newspaper. First, they give sports coverage (even off-season) more attention than world events; second, they cut the daily op-ed page from two to one and the Sunday op-ed section from six pages to four; third, they fired their editorial cartoonists, and finally, they dropped the comic strip `Non Sequitur`.

At one time, it was considered remarkable when Walter Cronkite remarked, during coverage of the protests at the 1968 Democratic convention, that the police were àcting like animals`, it was considered extraordinary for a newsman to editorialize like that. Now it`s de rigeur.