Category Archives: The Liberal Media
Bibliomaniac’s Guide to Reading
Some days, it seems like reading is a lost art. Sure, we read text messages and Tweets and even Japanese cell phone novels; we read on the iPhone and the Kindle and maybe even the headlines at NYTimes.com, but when … Continue reading
UPDATE: Roma and the Copy Fail
“The treatment of the Roma is a litmus test for civil society.” –Former Czech premier Vaclav Havel, 1993 ***To all my journalist friends out there: your copy desk is more open than you think. Please, if you see #gypsycopyfail, correct … Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, The Liberal Media, United Nations
EASTSIDE UPDATE—LAT scoops 2000 word expose on controversy it invented
Hello! It’s time again to visit the good ship LAT, where we take you deep deep inside the west coast’s only major newspaper as it struggles for relevance and the $$$ to stay alfloat while draining the youth out of … Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, California, Immigration, The Liberal Media
Roma vs. Gypsy: NYT Copy Fail
(VIDEO AFTER THE JUMP!!!) 3rdWorldImagineer is back today with another instalment of ‘why language matters’. For the record, I am not a PC fascist, but I do think it’s critical to examine how we talk about certain subjects, particularly ones … Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, Bibliomania, Economy, India, MUMBAI, The Liberal Media, United Nations
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Why Online matters, aka Kalashnikov toting coroners in the City of Angels
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Coroners with guns. Yes, you heard correctly, the people we pay to pick up dead bodies, packing heat. The Times reports that investigators from the LA county coroner’s office are seeking the right to carry weapons into the ghettos and gangwar where they do 99% of their thing, because, no fucking duh, it’s dangerous there! Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, The Liberal Media
Gaza: an editor’s note (camels on the b-roll)
*I post this out of love, because even (and often) the most earnest among us are also the most absurd. I was trolling Facebook as I often do when i came across a friend’s photo album from a recent Gaza … Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, Israel, Palestine, The Liberal Media, United Nations
Terrorist, moi? Why the Maya Arulpragasam LTTE-drama is NYT Tiger-shit
The fact that it takes an emphatically pregnant young rapper who samples Bollywood and AK47s, writes songs about Bird Flu and does Day-Glo animal-print schizophrenia as an ethos rapping with Jay-Z on her due date to make us stand up and take notice of a conflict an order of magnitude more deadly than the one in Gaza should say something about us, not her. Continue reading
All Lanka, all the time
“The blunt words underline how difficult it has become to cover one of the world’s bloodiest and most under-reported conflicts. The government controls access to the war zones and international media groups complain of reporters being intimidated.” *From … Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, India, Sri Lanka, The Liberal Media
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