what is with the world..

[Thorne]

i mean at last count in that country...fifty thousand could be dead of the cyclone that hit..and what are the networks talking about here in the US? the elections..i mean...fifty thousand human souls have been wiped out in one fell swoop..i consider that breaking news myself..no matter where the cyclone took place..

I don't know why anyone in their right minds would want to watch the news anyway, but you have to remember: Myanmar, or Burma as it used to be called, is one of the more remote areas of the world. It's probably quite difficult getting crews into the devastated area to get good video. (Nothing like smashed homes and bloated bodies to really sell a news story!) Also, that general area of the world gets clobbered by cyclones (equivalent of hurricanes) once or twice a year. While any loss of life may be heartbreaking to some here in the US, and elsewhere, those kinds of losses in that area are not unusual.