Media Girl has an important post up on the needs of the earthquake relief efforts in Pakistan. And in a comment to her post she asks an important question, "Why are the corporate-owned media silent on this tragedy?"

She's crossposted this at boomantribune and also at DailyKos. At the time I'm posting this, it's the number one diary on the recommended list at DailyKos. Hopefully her efforts today will help raise some donations to help out these unfortunate people in Pakistan.

This is great. The press corps gives Scotty "Arf Arf" McClellan the grilling of a lifetime. And they're royally pissed. All Scotty can do is babble endlessly about not "playing the blame game."

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