 cptenaud says: A (good, "old-fashioned") journalist ... (4.00 / 2) is never there to examine one side of a story. American journalism has been in a sad state for many years. **Warning: slightly topical tangent alert:** Hell, we never heard more than the one ever-saintly angle on Mother Teresa for crying out loud, whereas so many in the rest of the world at least had the opportunity to examine other info. If you ask your average Indian exposed to her works, she isn't regarded as a saint. Granted, the whole point behind missionary work is conversion to the missionary's faith, but she was held out to be to be the ultimate humanitarian ... and that is simply not the truth. I know, I know -- Mother Teresa?? You can't trust anything.  If we never had folks like Nir, we'd never see the inside of many worlds or have a single clue whether we're being propagandized by our own media and government. The one thing America needs a lot less of is ignorance. Clip highlights an important difference in world-views, possibly between dying modernism (in which everything must be either bad or good) and burgeoning post-modernism (in which people on all sides have at least some legitimate points that should be heard - and it may be that if those points are listened to, conflict can be avoided without compromising what matters to us). It is the difference between McCain and Obama. And dominance-based foreign policy versus cooperative foreign policy. And intimidation versus engagement. And the religious right versus the emergent church. And scientific reductionism versus emergence. And a host of conflicts that exist that are really battles over a dy... Good points Masbury. |
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