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 was the last time you sat down with a serious work of literary fiction or [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘The Liberal Media’
July 1, 2009
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 it. ***
Gypsy, Gypsies Capitalize references to the nomadic Caucasiod people found throughout the world. Also known as [...]
June 7, 2009
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 a small but significant generation of would be career reporters. For a fantastic chronicle of [...]
April 26, 2009
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 gaining steam in the media. Hence, my semi-annual beef with the AP Stylebook.
For the uninitiated, the AP [...]
April 21, 2009
Check Out my Awesome Slideshow
I am consistantly amazed at how much i get to do whatever i want.
March 10, 2009
Why Online matters, aka Kalashnikov toting coroners in the City of Angels
Are you ready?
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!
February 26, 2009
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 mish. I am sharing this in violation of my own rules to make a point about [...]
February 13, 2009
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.
February 7, 2009
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 The Guardian’s Randeep Ramesh on Feb. 1
Because it is my pet conflict, I wanted to fill readers in on [...]
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