I was really surprised to hear today that the China courts have sentenced two men to death, and one woman to life in prison over the tainted milk scandal in China.  I had not heard much about the case recently.  The fact that I had not heard much about it makes me realize exactly how much goes on in the world that we don’t hear about here in the USA.  I don’t like feeling uninformed!

I wonder if that makes us egotistical?  I wish we DID hear more about those types of things.  I understand that we have a lot of important news going on here, but there are channels that dedicate themselves to news 24/7 and I have often watched them and just seen the same stories repeated over and over.  I’m not talking about the “headline news” channels, either.  I think we, as a country, could do better about that kind of thing.