My goodness!

Keedy, do you actually believe that the White House has enough power or influence to control all the news media except Fox News? Wow! That's a level of paranoia that's not healthy. I'm worried about you, fella.

I have no idea why the major news media has chosen to give the coverage to Michael Jackson that they are. First, when Farah Fawcett died this morning, I mentioned to Mrs. Kahuna that it might be one of Mark Sanford's luckier days. Then Farah got quickly bumped off the news a few hours later. I just shake my head with the shallowness of the news sometimes. The networks should be lambasted as much as the other "entertainers" I've criticized. They broadcast or publish the news that they think will increase viewership or sell papers, regardless of it's importance in the grand scheme of things.

One of the reasons that the North Korea story didn't get much coverage, Bucco, is that it's "old news". It was covered a couple of days ago when the U.S. destroyer began to track the North Korean freighter pursuant to the new UN resolutions. It was then that Kim Jong-il made the threats against the U.S. About the only new news today was the big demonstration in Pyongyang to commemorate the North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950. I doubt that anyone would categorize that as a major hard news story.

Other than the fact that there really isn't much new news regarding North Korea, maybe the only reason I can think of, other than today's two celebrity death stories, why the news media have skipped over the Korea story is the improbability of anything really happening--certainly not North Korea hitting anything other than the ocean with their rockets. They haven't been successful with their rocketry so far, why should anyone be worried that suddenly they could send a rocket more than 4,000 miles to Hawaii, when the farthest they've been able to shoot one so far is a couple hundred miles into the Sea of Japan? Getting one to go almost 6,000 miles to California seems a bit out of the question, certainly not a threat that's very newsworthy. Then there's the question of both accuracy and warhead. All that might be why the story didn't get much coverage today.