Woodruff & Vogt Wounded in Iraq...

The TOP story in the USA is about two journalists: Bob Woodruff, and Doug Vogt. They encountered an Improvised Explosive Device the hard way. The body armor saved their lives. Blah blah blah. Something soldiers have been dealing with for a couple of years, with far less fanfare.

What is it with the media anyway? Reporters are not supposed to be the news. Yet when one has a bad day on the job, it becomes the top story in America. Every network hails the fallen hero. I remember watching events on Septemeber 11th, 2001 on TV. I recall how the only victim's face we saw was a blond reporter that was said to be on one of the flights that hit the towers. They kept coming back to her over and over. Not a single other passenger was identified by name that day.

Whether it was then or now, let a media type get a hangnail, it will be front page news. Meanwhile, the average American citizen is completely clueless about world events:

China Dominates World Economic Agenda

Coup Against President Looming in Philippines

Exxon Posts Record Profits

More Doctors Leaving Primary Care than Graduating Med School

Even Saudi Arabia has Social Security

The above stories didn't take me long to find, but they are not listed on CNN, ABC, NBC, or Fox News web sites, and certainly not on their TV channels. I noticed that gold is up in the market. Higher than it's every been historically. I remember a year or two ago, I was out of the country and watching BBC, and CNN World (a channel we are not offered in USA). The were telling everyone that gold was going to rise to historically unheard of levels.

I came home to the states and heard nothing about it our news.

Our sites give us editorials explaining why you need to watch the Super Bowl like your continued survival in the job market depends on it.

Watch the Super Bowl like it's your job

The only piece of good news I heard today, was my Russian co-worker says it's just the same in Russia. Apparently, there and here we would rather hear about what Michael Jackson is up to than news of any real consquence.

-Corwin