February 2012
10 posts
“Sources reported that at approximately 11 p.m., the unruly and increasingly...”
– The Onion, of course.
“War reporting is still dominated by men. Marie stood out as a woman who could do...”
– Sarah Topol pays tribute to Marie Colvin, the trenchant and talented Sunday Times correspondent killed in Syria this morning after a shell hit the house she was in. Read Marie’s final report, a searing dispatch from the besieged enclave of Baba Amr in Homs, and this passionate address she...
“Reflexively, her hands slapped her face. They clawed, until her nails drew...”
– The unmatched, the incandescent Anthony Shadid, who died in Syria today. “Restoring Names to War’s Unknown Casualties.” The New York Times, Aug. 30, 2010.
WatchOne of the most important films I’ve ever watched, The Interrupters, aired on FRONTLINE Tuesday night. Ameena, Eddie and Cobe are simply transcendent. You should let them into your life.
If you missed the broadcast, it’s online now, with more to explore by yours truly.
“I ask the competent authorities in Iraq to open an embassy in Washington,...”
– Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric who has steadfastly railed against American influence in Iraq and whose militia fought the American military, in a statement posted on his website. The New York Times. (View photos of the $750 million U.S. Embassy in Iraq, the largest of its kind in the world.)
