I know there's a lot going on, but you'd think words like "Iranian troops massing" and "Turkish shelling" would get the attention of at least one or two Murkin journamalists:

Al-Quds al-Arabi (www.alquds.co.uk, Tuesday September 12, item on page 1) says 902 Kurdish farming families have been forced out of their homes in the area where the Turkish-Iranian-Iraqi borders meet, because of continued shelling of the area by both Turkish and Iranian forces. The shelling has already caused several deaths and injuries, as well as the destruction of hundreds of head of cattle. The newspaper cites Kurdish journalistic sources, the main one apparently being Kurdish News Network (KNN TV). Al-Quds adds that the families are in dire straits economically because they have had to miss the end of the fruit-harvesting season. Al-Quds says the Iranian-Kurdish party (Party of Life), and the Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party have used this area as a refuge for years, adding that there has been massing of Iranian and Turkish troops in the area for a considerable time now. You might think that cross-border shelling, displacement of families, and massing of troops would catch the attention of the great institutions of American journalism, and maybe it has, but probably they are waiting to be told what the spin on this is supposed to be.

From a great new site our friend Mark discovered, Missing Links.