HEH This crowd is not, actually, a group of Myanmar's cyclone survivors waiting in a rice line. It is, however, a group of Bush administration survivors waiting in a hope line. [MM]

How does a huge entertainment giant that's a subsidiary of an even larger media behemoth respond to an international natural disaster? By sending money? Food stuffs? Enlisting staffers to volunteer?

No.

Viacom's MTV is responding to the Myanmar/Burma cyclone disaster by asking others to do something. But they've made a 90-second video for the pitch!

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Remember how the Times Barry Bearak, reporting from Zimbabwe on the country's ridiculously rigged Robert Mugabe election, feared retribution from the government, so he kept his name off his reports, but then agreed to be bylined when colleagues did? And then he was arrested, imprisoned for a few days, and released on $7 bail?

CNN's Dan Rivers did not get the Don't Identify Yourself in a Country That Hates Journalists memo.

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It's funny, because it's true: "The New York Times ran the following headline and story on the front page of its print edition this morning:

MYNAMAR JUNTA ACCUSED OF DELAY IN STORM RELIEF

BANGKOK — As hungry, shivering survivors waited among the dead for help after a huge cyclone in Myanmar, aid agencies and diplomats said Wednesday that the delivery of relief supplies was being slowed by the reluctance of the country’s secretive military leaders to allow an influx of outsiders.

"Shockingly, a search of the Nexis-Lexis database reveals the following story ran in August 2005 in the Chicago Sun-Herald—virtually the same headline and lead, word for word, with only minor changes:

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