You can't report all the news in the world but at least a major news agency should have enough sense and logical judgement to separate the wheat from the chaff.
My previous post was about the factoid pseudo-news scum that takes over the BBC headlines. TV news in UK is bound by law to be impartial and the BBC website is the internet outlet of the TV service.
It is easy to understand why China news gets more coverage than reports from smaller Asian countries, but one thing that makes me furious is that when a Tibetan mob went on vandalizing shop windows, the worldwide hoopla went sky-high praising them but when thousands of Thai people in Bangkok keep protesting against an illegal constitution change that would allow the former Prime Minister get away scot-free with embezzled billions - that barely merits a mention (after I wrote an angry letter to the editors, but I don't really know if it actually had any effect, I like to hope it did). And even then, reports on a peaceful pro-democracy protest by concerned politically aware citizens get buried in heaps of stuff like Kiwi hedgehog assault or Indonesian flighty cash-drop.
Ironically enough, the Thai military turns out to be the only defender of justice these days, while the US threatens to withdraw its aid (a miserly 32 million a year, more spent on luxury items in Bangkok alone on any given week!) if their puppets of corrupt politicians are not restored to power. The Empire of Evil has now a firmly established capital in Washington, D.C.
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