Archive for the ‘Satire’ Category
Dear Muslims, ask not what Juan Williams did to you, but what you can do for Juan Williams
National Public Radio just fired Juan Williams, one of its long-time contributors. NPR fired him for saying this, on FOX News’ Bill O’Reilly program: “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot….But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, [...]
A poetic pause for “The Brown Man’s Burden”
TexasinAfrica recently pointed me to a poem I hadn’t seen before, and I basically think it should be required reading for anyone in aid, development or journalism that writes about either of those (and so many other) things. The poem is by Henry Labouchère, at times a journalist, at times an art critic, at times [...]
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