Remember Burma?

A few weeks ago, we were inundated with pictures of the courageous monks in Burma -- the days of demonstrations and protests filled our airwaves and the newspapers, and then, with the attention span of a toddler, the corporate media in America turned away, and away and now the issue is no longer front and center.

As the events in Burma unfolded, I launched the Burma NewsLadder in an attempt to give people a single site to go to where the news could be aggregated and collected. It has been a great success and I appreciate very much everyone who visited, posted and commented there.

So what's happening at the Burma NewsLadder now? Well, interestingly enough, people are still posting, and still visiting from both here and Burma. However, the source articles and links have pretty much all changed. A few weeks ago, there were New York Times articles and LA Times articles, now all of the news is coming from overseas sources.

From Irish and English newspapers. From Australia and Thailand and from bloggers and folks inside Burma. You see it's not the media that has abandoned Burma, it's our media.

And they have no excuse because our site traffic and the level of interest in Burma shows there is a market for news about the country and the situation there. If our media won't satisfy that market, it will be my pleasure, my great pleasure, to do so.