Let Them Eat Cake

A famine is raging through southern Africa–a famine that Doctors Without Borders has called among the worst in Africa in the past decade. The international relief organization CARE reports that the famine “is largely the result of one of the worst droughts in a decade” and that “severe hunger–even starvation–threatens millions, particularly among the most vulnerable: children, the elderly, and pregnant and nursing women” in Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

…It’s a story that produces haunting pictures of despairing mothers, of fading children — and of the courageous people who are working against time, against all odds, to try to restore life.

But it’s not good television, apparently.

FAIR