Downplaying Darfur: "In his Sunday New York Times column, Nick Kristof rightfully chastised President Bush for devoting less attention to Sudan's Darfur region--where the government-backed Janjaweed militia has killed 300,000 native Darfurians--than MTV. In fact, most of the press coverage has been equally sparse, and inexcusably underplayed.

According to the American Journalism Review, last year the three major networks devoted five times as much coverage to Martha Stewart as to the genocide in Sudan. The world's worst humanitarian crisis prompted an abysmal 18 minutes of fame."

(Via The Nation Weblogs.)