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We’ve been getting tons of news on Global Voices about how activists and bloggers are using the web to distribute information from Myanmar after the cyclone, including numerous citizens videos of the devastation. The situation is obviously incredibly serious, although you wouldn’t know it from reading the state-run newspaper, The New Light of Myanmar.

Only one week after the cyclone, you had to leaf ahead to page 4 before it was even mentioned. What was on the front page instead? “The dictator, and his wife, casting their votes in the constitutional referendum that he didn’t see fit to postpone,” writes the New Mandala blog. Check out the pictures.

Thank you internet, for these simple illustrations of reality.