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Tuesday, March 29. My usual preferred news channel spent the opening eight minutes on the Oscars and the punch by Will Smith.

At any time, such opening items could be seen as inappropriate. But now, 14 minutes into the bulletin, still no mention of the war-torn parts of the globe – Ukraine, Yemen, South Sudan, Myanmar.

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