These Savages Are Soooo Unsophisticated

Quick read of today's Philippines Inquirer was enlightening insofar as the issues that seem to be reported here (and throughout the world) are strangely absent between the sophisticated pages of The Age.

I'm guessing none of you read about the story of an unidentified 27 year old Chinese student who threw his shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University. Which is strange, because The Age ran the story of the former President, George W Bush, being at the receiving end of a shoe two months ago for 6 days straight.

http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/04/if-shoe-fits/

I'm guessing none of you read about the story of 6 rockets being fired by Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade at Israeli civilian complexes yesterday, one week after a truce was declared.

[UPDATE: 3 days on still nothing in The Age. I can only imagine the front page of The Age if Israel has the audacity to respond].

I'm guessing none of you have read about the debacle ensuing in Washington as high profile nominees including long time Democrat Senator Tom Daschle withdraw and the long awaited stimulus package is in tatters in light of the committed funds being used not to 'stimulate' a fragile economy but instead being used for the sort of pork barelling The One said he would outlaw as President.

[UPDATE: 2 days late, The Age finally runs with the story. In the age (excuse the pun) of news reaching all corners of the globe simultaneously I can only presume the editors at The Age were hoping this wouldnt be a big story around the rest of the world, including the unsophisticated and uneducated backwaters of The Philippines....Fancy a negative story about The One after only two weeks as President? I guess they got it wrong.]

I'm sure the savages here from the Philippine Inquirer and other newspapers wish they were half as educated and worldly as journalists at The Age.