Word: journalist
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Drugs are one of the main sources of conflict in Columbia, said David Aquila Lawrence, a free-lance journalist for National Public Radio, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, the BBC and CNN for the past three years...
...said some people have the idea that journalists shouldn't report on information that could hurt the peace process, but his response is always that a journalist's responsibility is to inform people, "so people can make an informed choice, knowing what's going...
Smith, a free-lance journalist and author, is the most eloquent voice in a country in the throes of an epidemic. South Africa recorded 1,263 rapes in 1979. Today the official annual figure is nearly 50,000, but rape-crisis researchers say only 1 in 35 is reported. That means there are more than 1.6 million rapes a year--the highest incidence in the world, according to Interpol. (In 1998 the official South African rate was 104.1 rapes per 100,000 people; in the U.S. the rate was 34.4 per 100,000.) Worse, the cultural and legal attitudes toward...
...decision incensed anti-rape activists and further energized a movement already fueled by outrage. "Nowhere since the final days of apartheid has there been greater activism in a national social issue," says Smith, 42, who was an antiapartheid journalist of some repute. "Rape victims are speaking out because we are people, not statistics. We have nothing to be ashamed of. [South Africa is] a so-called moral society that does nothing, that should be filled with shame." Indeed, in a country in which race remains hugely sensitive, the debate centers, surprisingly, not on race but on gender equality. An antirape...
...mere 304 theaters, yielding by far the highest dollars-per-screen figure in the Top 10. And the suits didn't know the half of it. The movie, it turns out, was funded by what the Hollywood Reporter's David Finnigan describes (fondly--he moonlights as a religion journalist) as "a little Christian cable channel most noted for one of its co-hosts' having enormous hair...