Unfortunately for most of the world, with the exception of the Holocaust perhaps (the ending of which just happened to coincide with our interests), intervention never seems to come where it is needed most. I've been watching this develop with a dreadful sense of familiarity.
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Originally Posted by abaya
So this is not going wall-to-wall on US news stations? I'm just curious, because I've seen it on the front page of the online Seattle Times, and it's all over CNN, so I assumed everyone was seeing it as much as I was. I think this is the 11th or 12th day of protests so far, so it's not like breaking news or anything... but it's been on at 8am, 9am, etc every day that we've been here.
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I don't watch television news so I couldn't tell you what the coverage is like, but it has been pretty prominently featured on the MSN and NYT websites.
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