The blogosphere still seems to be talking about the cartoons of death that caused so much trouble a few weeks, but they also still have a reason to talk about it. Most U.S. news outlets are still refusing to show the cartoons, but the cartoons themselves are actually extremely tame. Far less offensive than many of the Jesus jokes that the media will often record are. In other words, the national press has decided to censor something just because a bunch of people decided to get upset about it. What happens the next time a bunch of people whine about something? The media in the U.S. already suffers from the distrust of much of the country, you'd think they'd be making an extra effort to report the news, instead of hiding the truth. Until Americans actually see the cartoons, they have no reason to know that they are so incedibly tame that the whole riot thing was obviously a setup by Muslim religious and political leaders to... well... enforce their views on our media. And I don't think Imams living in the middle east should have this much power over our media. Journalists ought to be ashamed of the way the U.S. media has behaved in this whole affair, but most don't seem to be. I see this as an indictment of the entire system. "The people have a right to know" has become "The people have the right to know what we feel like telling them, and only if it's approved by Muslims in other countries."