If you know me at all, you know I love the pants off demographics, especially when they concern immigration and South Brooklyn. Which is why I am so tickled to share this AWESOMELY BADASS NYT INFO GRAPHIC with you. Though sadly unFlash, it has the kind of density of content that can make a girl [...]
January 10, 2009
Actively Ignoring Gaza: or, why I won’t write about the conflict
FACT:
There are, on average, 1,000 foreign correspondents reporting from Israel and the occupied territories–a nation with about the same geographic size and population as New Jersey–at any given time. In times of war, like right now, the number swells to upwards of 3,000.
Consider, then, that on the entire continent of Africa–the world’s second most populace continent after Asia– with its myriad wars, legions of corrupt governments, genocides, AIDS and MDRTB, pirates, inflation, starvation and hotbeds of militant fundamentalism, there are an average of 900.
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