Monday, July 16, 2007

Breaking News! Orchid smells like "sweaty feet".


This story comes from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Iranian TV has shown the first pictures of two Iranian American academics - Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh - who have been held in Iran since May.

The footage was a trailer promoting a programme to be aired later this week.

Only snatches of their voices are heard but the BBC's Tehran correspondent says they appear to be confessing to trying to topple the Iranian government.

Ms Esfandiari, Mr Tajbakhsh and another detained Iranian American, journalist Parnaz Azima, are accused of spying.

They could face the death penalty if found guilty.

This is big news, so I immediately went to the US network online services to see what they were reporting. These are, after all, Americans being held captive in Iran.

CNN. Earthquakes, Roman Catholicism, Iraq, Weather, Lindsay Lohan.

FOX. Microsoft DRM technology hacked, North Korea, Orchid in Yosemite National Park that smells like sweaty feet, Lindsay Lohan.

MSNBC. Earthquakes, Convicted killer gets 90 stay of execution, Older diabetes drugs as good as new ones, New orchid smells like sweaty feet, Lindsay Lohan.... and buried in the sidebar, but findable, Iran video shows detained Iranian-Americans.

Yahoo. Senate filibuster, Catholic Church pays $660 million for letting priests screw altar boys, Vitter denies prostitution allegations, Potter book under guard at secret US warehouse, DiMaggio's diaries: Any info on Marylin Munro?, no Lindsay Lohan.

What was I thinking?!

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