The BBC Edit­ors blog has this com­ment from Anthony, after a post by Steve Her­rmann explain­ing the moral and logist­ical com­plex­it­ies of online cov­er­age from Burma:

Although I’m rather appalled at myself for think­ing this — I find the cur­rent wave of Burma cov­er­age very dull and uninteresting.

In par­tic­u­lar — absent the nice juicy mas­sacre the media seem to be poised for — it doesn’t deserve to be top of news bul­let­ins across the BBC for the ump­teenth day running.

Days and days of some­thing not quite hap­pen­ing is not news.

When a pres­id­en­tial announce­ment about the inva­sion of Panama inter­rup­ted The Bold and the Beau­ti­ful, a tough female col­league of mine on the CBS News for­eign desk took a call from a com­plain­ing viewer.

“Ma’am,” — she said, “if you don’t think that’s more import­ant than some crappy soap opera, you don’t deserve to watch television.”

Those were the days.

Still, though I hate to con­cede it, at least Anthony is being hon­est. Most view­ers just flip.