Archive for the ‘Shoptalk’ Category
Now crowdsourcing: Best & worst journalism about rape
If you’re a regular here, you know I manage to find myself mired in commentary about journalism on rape once every three or four months… though it rarely attracts the attention it did a month ago. I’m working on an essay that’s going to bring a lot of my thoughts, and a lot of what [...]
Muslims wear things!
Including hot little tennis dresses, cargo vests, cowboy hats, track suits… and, in the case of the founder of Pakistan, a monocole. Oh, and also, by the way, NYPD blues. Khalid Latif will, according to comments on the web site, be on the Colbert Report next week. That just confirms what I’ve always known: Every [...]
If you’ve got a radio, you can hear my voice
I have a short radio essay, “The Music of Language,” about the cacophony and the calm of working across a handful of languages, on National Public Radio’s World Vision Report this weekend. Check your local listings for times, or listen to it online starting at midnight, pacific time. Thanks to my favorite Dutchman, who shall [...]
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, [...]
Can diamonds be a (socially responsible) girl’s best friend again?
Recently, I learned about The Clarity Project, an effort to bring fairly-mined, fairly-sourced diamonds into the jewelry market. Impressed by the venture and the website, I did an email interview with Jesse Finfrock, one of the founders. In addition to making diamond engagement rings a possibility again, The Clarity Project is a fascinating exercise in [...]
A roundup of ideas on tweeting rape
Update: For a broader look at constructing a relationship between readers and writers when covering rape and trauma, see my January/February 2011 article in the Columbia Journalism Review (PDF here with permission). For some suggestions on meaningful consent in trauma journalism, see this post. Whether we should tweet rape is a question that seems to [...]
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