It’s a fascinating business to own a blog or just write on the Internet these days. After a week of following news on Iran, writing two posts and an article myself, I was appalled at the abandoning of this historical event in the wake of Michael Jackson’s untimely death. To cover Jackson for some hours is understandable, but still today the media is covered in Jackson news.
This comes at a time when a regime hellbent on nuclear weapons development, is murdering it’s own people in their hometowns as their theocratic government imposes a technological blackout. Well, attempts one anyway. A few things are still slipping through, but the tidal wave of information we were getting has subsided.
I wrote a small bit in the Examiner about my previous post, and all of a sudden there were people reading the news… for Michael Jackson. The comments were all indignant that I would say many have traded celebrity news for real, substantive events. I said we as a country do not appreciate Iran’s struggle enough. The fact that the majority sailed in on the piece because Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett were in the headlines, I think proves the point.
