The Digital TV Divide

Juan Cole points it out,

For those of you with access to BBC World, the best 24 hour news channel in the English-speaking world check out the Doha Debate this weekend. I was one of the debaters in Qatar.

This news isn’t exactly getting any airplay either,

In a sign of a reinvigorated American Left, longshore workers declined to come to work on Thursday, paralyzing ports along the West Coast from Los Angeles to Seattle, in protest against the Iraq War. The union workers complained that “many of the big shipping companies are profiting from the war.”

Somewhere between the digital black holes of Faux and CNN the information age lies. You can pick up more news in ten minutes on the blogs than on TV all day long.