De-Pressing Haiti

Stop the presses: Today the New York Times ran an article about Haiti!

The Times usually ignores that chronically failing state, just an hour-long flight from Miami. I'd estimate it's run fewer than a dozen full-length features about Haiti since the coup in 2004. And there are stories upon stories there. A few weeks ago, the head of the UN peacekeeping mission apparently killed himself. The number of kidnappings in Port-au-Prince rivals those in Baghdad. Stooges in the temporary government have imprisoned a major contender for political power on trumped up charges.

I'm not arguing here that the US's flagship paper has an obligation to run stories about Haiti. I'm just saying those stories are damn good and easy to get.