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Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down By Kaylene Johnson Epicenter Press; 158 pages...
Every day at lunchtime this July, my coworkers and I overlooked the press camped out on our lawn, waiting for the arrival of a war criminal. Of course, this was to be expected; I was interning at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. “The Butcher of Bosnia,” Radovan Karadzic, was caught and turned over during my stay, making headlines all over the globe. Karadzic, the one-time president of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, was being brought to justice for his war crimes, particularly the decision...
...interactions with both these war criminals and victims made me realize that the press can only convey a portion of what these events really mean; they can’t capture all that lies behind the scenes. The media cannot escape a measure of abstraction however they approach these atrocities on the page or screen, as it isn’t until we come face-to-face with the people involved in the trials and statistics that we begin to comprehend the sheer scale of what has happened...
...ICTY, every case involves thousands of those pained or vindictive eyes. From a legal perspective and through the lens of the press, we are forced to consider the ethnic cleansing campaign’s 300,000 dead and 20,000 rape victims. But these numbers assume an incomprehensible scale...
...backlash has not yet had an impact on voters' perceptions of McCain's credibility, though with the press emboldened, that could change. But to date, the numbers don't show it. In late July, the Real Clear Politics average of McCain's favorability rating stood at 53%, with 34% of voters saying they held an unfavorable view of McCain. Since then, his favorability rating has gone up three points while his unfavorability number has gone up just more than a point...