The recent teddy bear crisis in which a British teacher was put through a horrible ordeal received an unbelievable amount of Western media attention that Darfur hasn’t gotten. Within the span of one week, the whole world knew about it. It’s shameful and demonstrates the misplaced priorities of news organizations.

On the other hand the Arab media of course dedicated a lot of time to the Annapolis Conference instead. As usual, the focus is almost always on Iraq and Palestine. 200,000 dead Darfurians matter.

Thank goodness there are activists like Alex De Waal and John Prendergast who are passionately concerned and doing their best to spread awareness and appease Darfur’s situation.