Many of you have written to show us other instances of absurdity in the media's coverage of the Asian tsunami tragedy. Of course, nothing is really newsworthy unless there are sensational pictures or rich white people involved. But who are we to lecture about journalistic integrity? Such are the inevitables when disaster-porn and the 24 hour news cycle collides. We know it must be tough to write stories when all the AP wire offers are photos of poor little brown people. Here are a couple of your examples after the jump.

On the tragedy of losing the island you bought and living off of Christmas leftovers from the Washington Post:

"Disaster struck with no warning out of a faultlessly clear blue sky. I was taking my morning swim around the island that my brother Geoffrey, a businessman, had bought on a whim a decade ago and turned into a tropical paradise 200 yards from one of the world's most beautiful beaches."

"We have no water and no electricity and are cut off from the rest of Sri Lanka. It is impossible to buy food. We are existing on cold ham and turkey sandwiches, leftovers from Christmas dinner."

Front page photo choice in the Post yesterday. "Two white folk, one with a trucker hat with brace yourself Fox logo on it." The Post and Fox both being owned by Rupert Murdoch, but you knew that already. It's illegible in the link but the reader swears it was clear as day on the print version. We'll take his word for it since we've never actually touched a paper copy of the Post.