Been away doing the little work that pays the bills and came back last night on a flight and then a long drive home. Sometimes the timing of these back and forth’s conjuncts to listening while driving to a radio show called ‘Ideas’ – last night’s was called ‘THE 2010 DALTON CAMP LECTURE’ with a Journalist named Stephanie Nolen.
Including a link here ( _http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2010/11/25/the-2010-dalton-camp-lecture/ ) that will have the pod cast available November 29th . If you are interested in Journalism, especially from the standpoint of a foreign correspondent who looks deeper than most, you will find this lecture worth the hour it takes to listen to it; be warned, it will not be easy.
In her talk she describes her 5 rules to Journalism, being a woman and getting the story and making sure you get the story from the woman of whatever indigenous group is in that country, which mainstream media tends not to do. On the surface, when she describes situations in her work, she is very humorous masking the deep anger within, but it is the anger that fuels her onward. The stories she tells, where she has to go, what she endures is testimony to what most Journalists today will never experience. Through the eyes and voices of woman she encounters, these stories should never need telling, should never exist, however, it is a world truly drunk in depravity by mostly diseased males dominion over others.
Of the journalists of our time and their inability to dig deep, the root problem is that most papers have been quickly taking down their foreign offices and poaching of the regular by-lines of the day that give them of course the best ratings – often from source country journalists who are at risk if they do not play the game as told.
In her reports, stewing underneath her humour as a way to deal with what she sees and hears, are some of the most horrid things imaginable held within her anger and these stories are so important to be investigated and told; the truth though, is that it seems so many do not wish to hear let alone see.
Post back if you have trouble finding the podcast on the 29th and I will see if it can be found.
Including a link here ( _http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2010/11/25/the-2010-dalton-camp-lecture/ ) that will have the pod cast available November 29th . If you are interested in Journalism, especially from the standpoint of a foreign correspondent who looks deeper than most, you will find this lecture worth the hour it takes to listen to it; be warned, it will not be easy.
In her talk she describes her 5 rules to Journalism, being a woman and getting the story and making sure you get the story from the woman of whatever indigenous group is in that country, which mainstream media tends not to do. On the surface, when she describes situations in her work, she is very humorous masking the deep anger within, but it is the anger that fuels her onward. The stories she tells, where she has to go, what she endures is testimony to what most Journalists today will never experience. Through the eyes and voices of woman she encounters, these stories should never need telling, should never exist, however, it is a world truly drunk in depravity by mostly diseased males dominion over others.
Of the journalists of our time and their inability to dig deep, the root problem is that most papers have been quickly taking down their foreign offices and poaching of the regular by-lines of the day that give them of course the best ratings – often from source country journalists who are at risk if they do not play the game as told.
In her reports, stewing underneath her humour as a way to deal with what she sees and hears, are some of the most horrid things imaginable held within her anger and these stories are so important to be investigated and told; the truth though, is that it seems so many do not wish to hear let alone see.
Post back if you have trouble finding the podcast on the 29th and I will see if it can be found.
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