Colin, your trying to sneak the discussion off into a total sideline. CNN world is an inside page of a website - if you go to the CNN international edition (which is the equivilant of the BBC world edition) you would not find the story - until you click on world news, and go inside that section looking for it.
Every region has it's news. It is just sad as hell to see that world conflicts only get FRONT PAGE coverage (or inside the 30 minutes of TV news coverage) in the US only when the state department, or the whitehouse sends out a talking head to say something about it. Otherwise, it gets buried. 72 dead people is 72 dead people, no?
Anyway, we are just going in circles now, totally off from the original point.
The point is this: Until India and Pakistan got nukes, nobody in the US even knew they were fighting over Kashmir... the nukes show up, and suddenly the State Department et al. are out there talking it up, and it makes the front page. No increase in death, no increase in fighting, but suddenly it's news... how many years after they started?
It's the news cycle... mostly controlled by a small group of people.
Alex
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