Torture Awareness Month Without Awareness
What kind of Torture Awareness Month is it when current news about torture barely sees the light of day?
Earlier this evening, I wrote about two congressional hearings about the issue of torture that took place today. As of the time I made the video podcast you see below, only four journalistic organizations had written about today’s torture hearings - and two of those were from Canada.
Even worse was the blog blackout. If you don’t count Irregular Times, or That’s My Congress - a blog affiliated with Irregular Times, only two blogs bothered to write anything about the hearings.
Since that time, a few more mainstream news reports have trickled in, but the blog blackout remains. It seems that if the mainstream news doesn’t report on something, the blogosphere doesn’t even recognize that it exists.
That’s the problem, discussed in terms of the torture hearings held in Congress today, discussed in the video below:
And the next morning now, there’s not one more blog article written about the testimony of John Bellinger the Third.
There have been, however, blog posts written about the new iPhone all night long. The new iPhone, you see, um, allows you to talk to people far away, and to do a bunch of other stuff while trying to cram your fingers onto a tiny little screen.
The iPhone is the opiate of the masses.