Antique Media vs Internet News

There's no contest.

One gives you considered, intelligent analysis of world events and one shows the most dramatic photographic images it can get its hands on and raps out biased soundbites as percussion.

I found this at normblog. Not in any US or UK paper, certainly not on the tv news which doesn't get a look in round here, and not on the radio. Nope. I learned long ago that old fashioned sources of news just don't satisfy me.

Here's what caught my eye:

"Louise Arbour is the High Commissioner of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, whose members include such beacons of democracy and human rights as Zimbabwe, China, Sudan and Congo.

The UN General Assembly Resolution 48/141 of Dec. 20, 1993, which established the position and responsibilities of the high commissioner, does not mandate the threatening of criminal prosecutions for heads of state or their military. So that is why no high commissioner has threatened criminal prosecution of Russian leaders for torture and killings in Chechnya, or of China's rulers for their continuous violent crackdown against dissidents and violent suppression of the Falun Gong.

Nevertheless, the current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights exceeded her mandate when she threatened Israeli leaders, political and military, with criminal prosecution. In a remarkable and disturbing move, Ms. Arbour issued a press release on July 19 dealing with what she called the "alarming" situation in southern Lebanon."

She exceeded her mandate on the Israel issue. Not a bloody peep on Zimbabwe, China, Sudan, Congo, Russia/Chechnya, USA/Gitmo. Whatever could be the reason?

I have my suspicions.