Posts Tagged ‘nick kristof’
Yes, Nick, there is a white reporter’s burden in Africa
But it’s not being white on the Dark Continent. It’s that there are so many other bad white reporters who came through before us. By us, I mean a new generation of Americans reporting on Africa. We are not Nick Kristof. We don’t need a white protagonist, and those of us who have been here [...]
Actually, Nick Kristof, this is a damn good point.
One more thing on this “Nick Kristof named a 9-year-old rape victim!” controversy. In my, “Thanks for your time in the middle of Congo, Nick Kristof” email, I mentioned I’d face a similar, though totally unscrutinized, decision in Liberia last year. He replied that he had too — and he’d not used a girl’s name, [...]
When can you name rape victims? Nick Kristof replies
This is the first of a two posts about this. Mostly because I wrote this, went to bed at 2 am, then I got up to another email from Nick Kristof. Thanks, Nick, for taking the time to talk with me about this. Readers might want to see Part II. There was a bit of [...]
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