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...does seem as if you're always on the road, reporting from somewhere far-flung. Yet in this current era of journalism, most of us are expected to report from our desks to save money...
...true. Television in particular has largely abandoned covering the world, with the exception of a crisis here or there for a few weeks. The entire world ends up being a loser for that. The essential problem is that networks have found they can send a reporter to a place like Congo, but it's dangerous and expensive and doesn't get good ratings. If they throw a Republican and a Democrat in a room together to yell at each other, it's cheap and entertaining. We have to fight for the resources to get out and report...
...TIME's special report "How to Live 100 Years...
...same way that details of the violence committed by and against the employees of the Peruvian Amazon Company surfaced slowly in the British press in the three years leading up to the Casement’s 1912 report, Goodman deploys his sources gradually, amassing eyewitness accounts alongside official reports. Goodman cites descriptions of gang rape, the torture of children (by burning their hands and feet until they betrayed the whereabouts of their parents), and deliberate regimes of starvation—all tactics to maintain an atmosphere of terror in which the Indians would not dare to fall short...
...time it is supposedly seeking better ties with the U.S., and on Tuesday, a Burmese court sentenced four women who held prayer services for Suu Kyi's release to prison terms with hard labor. "One step forward, one step back is the opposite of a shift," Zawacki said. A report released Tuesday by Amnesty International concurs, documenting stepped-up repression against Burma's ethnic minority groups. "Ethnic minorities play an important but seldom acknowledged role in Burma's political opposition," Zawacki said. Several ethnic minorities have formed their own political parties, or are members of the NLD. Some ethnic groups...