Friday June 26, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Yesterday, two icons, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, died.
And a United States governor, Mark Sanford, grabbed headlines because he admitted, publicly, to a lurid extramarital affair.

Yesterday, also, former United States president Jimmy Carter announced that Hamas should be removed from the terror list.
And unofficial reports from Iran declared that seven people were killed by police and Mousavi was put under house arrest.

What made headline news in the Arab world?
The deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.

In the Middle East, pop culture trumps local events.
That is something worth thinking about.

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