Fantastic. Just a wonderful reasoned post that spells out everything that's wrong with the way media packages and sells real and terrible tragedies to a distant and privileges populace, and how they respond to it. As someone in the profession (not in America, but sadly the situation is echoed across the world) the number of times I have been told as a reporter that we need 'human interest pieces'! Not just racism (of the kind that inspired this piece), but almost every other kind of discrimination is casually doled out in bite size pieces and that will never be ok!
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Date: 2010-06-16 11:49 pm (UTC)As someone in the profession (not in America, but sadly the situation is echoed across the world) the number of times I have been told as a reporter that we need 'human interest pieces'!
Not just racism (of the kind that inspired this piece), but almost every other kind of discrimination is casually doled out in bite size pieces and that will never be ok!