Upon further inpsection, our priorities may be a bit misplaced...

As the people of Iran struggle to gain basic human freedoms, we in the western world appear to have lost interest:

Television coverage of Iran's turmoil has fallen since Jackson's death Thursday; on the Twitter micro-blogging site, Iran remained among the most discussed topics, but fell below Jackson and comments about the movie 'Transformers 2.'

What does this say about our priorities as a society? Have we become so used to freedom and democracy that we just don't care when it is denied to other people?

See here for the full article:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090627/D9930GJ80.html