Category Archives: United Nations
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
Daily Oddities: Monday World Edition
There’s a lot to talk about in the World today, so lets jump right into it. You know about Tehran and you know about Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech, so we’re skipping that and getting straight down into the stuff you didn’t … Continue reading
Terror Couture
Recently, I’ve become obsessed by terrorist chic- not the kind defined so brilliantly by bradtriescriticaltheory – the sort that’s already been coopted and comodified to the point that Palestinians should be embarassed to wear the kaffieyeh, but things you could … Continue reading
Filed under 3rd World Imagineering, India, it's a small world, Mexico, Sri Lanka, United Nations
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
Sri Lanka vs Darfur: How We Read Conflict
*(reader note: since lots of my recent traffic seems to have an infants sense of irony, I’m marking anything I said ironic with asterisks. ****) I was asked in an interview recently why the Sri Lankan conflict (which has about … Continue reading
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A history of the conflict in Sri Lanka, from Guardian.co.uk
Chronicle of conflict • Sri Lanka gained independence from Britain in 1948. The country has a population of 21 million, of whom about 3.2 million are of Hindu Tamil origin. • Tamil is one of the principal languages of the … Continue reading
Little Big Things in South Asia Part 1—Lanka and what the 1W is missing
Lots o’ stuff going on in South Asia this week! Tata unveils the Nano, world’s cheapest car (cue whine-track from self-serving American environmental movement) U.N. announces Humanitarian Crisis in Sri Lanka (cue crickets). Orphanage in Bangladesh actually a terror cell? … Continue reading
Filed under India, it's a small world, Palestine, Sri Lanka, United Nations
3WI Special Report—Why they’re not listening to us
We spout off a lot about human voices and narratives and shit, but I’d rather read a bunch of solid numbers behind a single, strong argument than see another Maya/Fatima/Yelena, etc propped up in front of a camera and poked with a stick until she spills her unimaginably brutal survival story for another wannabe foreign correspondent’s lede. Human beings are the ONLY way to tell a story, especially a foreign story, but only if you treat them like humans instead of units of commoditized suffering. Anything else is just prostitution, and nobody likes a fucking pimp. Continue reading
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
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