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We haven’t seen one image of an Israeli firing a gun. Same thing goes for Hamas.

Although Hamas fighters are hunkered down in homes, mosques, schools and even in hospitals, according to Palestinians who can see them, we haven’t seen one picture of a Hamas fighter with a gun in a military situation, let alone firing it.

It’s an extreme case of "Control the Message."

SLIDESHOW: Gaza chaos

Hamas achieves the same result in a different way: they simply threaten to kill anybody who films them. That’s a persuasive argument, especially as most, if not all, of the reporters in Gaza at the moment are local Palestinians, who have nowhere to escape to.

2008 was not a good year for parents in China. 

And 2009 might not be much of an improvement.

Last May’s earthquake in Sichuan sawthe collapse of some 7,000 classrooms, killing thousands of students. 

Four months later, news surfaced that a major brand of infant formula contained melamine, an industrial chemical that was added to help artificially boost the protein levels in watered-down milk.  At least six babies have died and more than a quarter million more have fallen ill from drinking the tainted formula.

Compensation will be available to families of victims in both instances.  The government has offered $8,823 for each killed child to the quake parents.  The China Dairy Association this weekconfirmed a compensation planwas in the works for the milk parents.  Some reports have said families could receive up to $29,000 if their children died, but the details are still unclear.

But parents in both cases are outraged.