News to no one. America’s failing Press.

Define News. As in CNN Headline News or your local nightly news.

Here is my stab at it. Current events and stories that are worthy of public awareness.

With that said, I ask what is this crap being feed to us as News? Three points:

1)

A local morning news show here in Portland runs a special segment called something similar to "New News". This is a segment that runs newer stories. Is that not what News is in the first place, "new". A headline on CNN today "Bush: Iraq crucial in war on terror". Is this news? He has said this three times a day for three years. Yet it is front page. CNN Story

So a never changing situation in Iraq sits atop our news stories for more then 3 years. There must be nothing else "news worthy" going on in the world. How many of you know the details of the Darfur conflict happening in Sudan? You know there is a situation, but do you know what and why and what its effects are?

"According to recent reports by the World Food Program, the United Nations and the Coalition for International Justice, 3.5 million people are now hungry, 2.5 million have been displaced due to violence, and 400,000 people have died in Darfur thus far." source

In my opinion this is the most horrific catastrophe happening in the world today. Read more on Darfur

So, agreeing that this must be a pretty big news worthy story consider this fact. According to Harper