Horrible

I'm in the midst of final exams right now, but I want to take minute to vent my frustrations at the complete idiocy of cable and network news. Tens of thousands of people are dead in Burma, and tens of thousands more could die soon if proper aid does not reach them in time. Most news channels, instead of covering this disaster and putting pressure on Myanmar's government to open itself up to aid workers and supplies, are instead debating the content of a two-second Hillary Clinton soundbite. Honestly. It's unthinkable (and this coming from a politics junkie).

Newspapers report today that aid workers are being literally turned away at the airport in Myanmar, where they have come to provide relief to the homeless. This is not a hypothetical scenario. This is not reality TV. Real people will die. What the Burmese government is doing is criminal.