Um, hello?

I'll be back with a longer post in a couple of days, but I wanted to post this quickly. NPR did something that was rather funny in a gallows sort of humor way. Their first story in the business news section was the rapid increase in unemployment nationwide and how this has crashed computer systems in some states.
Their second story? A piece about a tech convention and all the new gadget we just have to buy.
Um, hello? Anyone home? And this is from the best member of the mainstream media. We need to wake up.