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UPDATE/Clarification: Iran is a signatory to the NPT, but was judged to be in non-compliance in 2006; North Korea withdrew its signature from the treaty in 2003.
John Stewart asks how, despite the above, Fox could possibly boast the largest viewership of any cable news network. The answer is not difficult to find. As this was going on...
Bishkek spreads from the center through grid streets studded with the carcasses of destroyed buildings -- establishments and homes of Bakiyev's family and those of the unlucky -- that mobs and opposition supporters have been ransacking since the insurrection struck. A charred casino, cards fluttering in the wind, is now a pile of smashed boards and unidentifiable, smouldering embers. Supermarkets have been gutted, leaving empty white-walled spaces and overturned freezers, dangling ripped-out wiring and defaced walls. Looters have been making off with anything they can carry.
"We are with the people" has been daubed on the grilled or barricaded shop fronts by those hoping words will keep rioters away. Petrol stations have been smashed to pieces. A few thieves are still ruffling in the wreckage. Everywhere the malevolent glints of broken glass and the swirl of rumors.
...CNN's homepage featured a story about a perfectly nice young lady who helps donate books to charity. That's all good and well, but Desultory Eclecticism was occupied with the journalistic coverage of breaking news over at AlJazeera. While Fox News has found its large, easily-caricatured niche, MSNBC demands a significantly smaller, albeit similarly caricaturable niche. Left-leaning news outlets seem oblivious to the fact that their natural clientele is composed of educated, thinking information seekers, the sorts of people who prefer in-depth coverage of the recent events in Krgyzstan to Tiger Woods Masters updates (you can't beat ESPN). That's why Desultory Eclecticism's homepage is not CNN, but AlJazeera English.
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