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They camp on doorsteps, in schoolyards, in cemeteries, in fields so crowded that people sleep standing up. Men and women search for fresh water only to find a thick, slimy brew so fouled by human waste that it does more to spread disease than quench thirst. For miles around, the...
Such priorities wouldn't be so offensive, if the television news pack admitted that they were nothing more than ordinary Hollywood purveyors of prurience. The cascade of innuendo, inaccurate reports, relentlessly rebroadcast melodramatic tapes are "news" in the way that "America's Most Wanted" is "news". It deals with things...
The pretense is nowhere more pitiful than right here in Boston. WBZ touts its "news" with a commercial featuring "anchor" Jack Williams pounding the mean streets, digging up leads, performing traditionally reporterly duties. The commercial is, of course, completely staged. Williams rarely leaves the studio (and never without a full...
The miasma of death hangs over the village of Nyarubuye, overpowering the scent of the surrounding eucalyptus trees. Their leaves, rustling in the wind, are all that moves. In the cool of the parish church, a body lies between the rough wooden pews, its skull split from crown to forehead...
I gave him partial credit; Guy Hebert plays for another expansion, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. "That's pitiful. Are You reading the listing off of the Sega Genesis game or are you just reciting them from memory?"