Not the 6 O'clock News. New Christian Martyrs Created by ISIS/ISAL.

Our highly secularized news media is hardly capable of grasping, let alone widely reporting the remarkable forgiveness offered by the brother and mother of two of the 21 Coptic Christians, recently murdered by ISIS murder victims in Libya.   

On a live call-in show over SAT-7, a Middle-Eastern Arabic-language Christian Satellite TV Station, the victims' brother thanks ISIS that they did not edit out the faithful declarations of Egyptian Christian martyrs as they were murdered.  Ironically, it is the secular media, not ISIS, who have edited this story.  

The mainstream media seems to have had enough difficulty simply mentioning the word "Christian" in relation to the murder victims.  We cannot expect that it will know what to do with such a display of Christian forgiveness from the victims' family members. 

What CNN Does Best in Real Time. Turning a Yawn Into a Blizzard.

"Violent winds and waves slamming Jersey shore..." Hurricane #CNN is the storm before the storm.  Sure there's a current and growing danger not to be ignored by one's common sense.  But the most blustery thing so far seems to be a CNN reporter's presentation from Mt. Pleasant. They missed an opportunity to see the humor in the name.  The annoying wind-on-microphone noise seems to be an opportunity to over-dramatize, and over-dramatization is what CNN does best.  Equally unconvincing are the "white out conditions taking hold" in NYC.  So. it appears no more threatening than an early business-as-usual spring day in Moose Jaw.

With reporter after CNN reporter hyping it up with every superlative they can throw out there, what happens when this thing really does get serious? How much hyped-language is going to be left?

Now they've got a reporter at LaGuardia, obsessing over all those cancellations marked in red. #CNN, always a fascination for bright colors and damaged things.  They've discovered the colors, now licking their easily-frozen chops for (dare I say, hoped-for) damage to come.  If there's less than three feet of snow in NYC, no worries. CNN will keep showing that big pile of salt used borrowed from social media for use on the roads.

The story is written. Looking for a blizzard that fits.  Pray it doesn't live up to the info-tainment hype.

Up Your Nose, Cadbury

Here are two more reasons people have resorted to snorting chocolate. Cadbury is messing with their time-tested formula. Time magazine reports that "Cadbury Creme Eggs Now Have 1 Less Egg in the Box and People Are Outraged." And it that isn't outrageous enough, the same article quotes a Sun article that reveals Cadbury has changed the ingredients. It's now a "standard cocoa mix chocolate" rather than the traditional Dairy Milk variety.

 I'm sure that's not "standard cocoa mix" going up noses in chocolate sniffing parlours in Belgium and around that world. It's the good stuff, surely. (See related chocolate-sniffing blogette)