Censoring the Net, Crashing the Banks and an Ice-free Artic
China (shock horror) has kept its Great Firewall in place for the Olympics. Oh they did promise to relax it but now that the Games are almost here its seems the deluge of sports news is the only thing the mass media is ready to report on.
The US banks are still paying the price for their questionable loans, taking a few casualties along the way but it seems like the crash has yet to happen. The price of oil is probably helping the stock market regain its confidence in the future, but it is unlikely that the general public will ever really know what is going on.
However the really outstanding bit of news is that the Arctic is likely to free of ice in the northern summer within 5 years.
Roughly speaking, the national publicly funded broadcaster devoted exactly zero minutes to the environment in tonight’s news. Clearly the directors of news feel that reporting on the environment is not something of interest to the general public. By contrast sport and Olympic reporting managed several major stories. Manufacturing consent…