Perhaps I spoke two days too soon when I suggested that the news media ought to start paying attention to food prices and shortages. The story seems to have broken through. Take a look at these headlines, for example, each one a top story somewhere today:
Food costs rising fastest in 17 years
Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket
Events of the weekend — the attention of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the ouster of the Prime Minister of Haiti — may have helped persuade reporters and editors that food had become news.
