We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. (Mary Antin)

7.03.2006

Quality journalism

I was listening to the BBC this morning, and they were doing a report on the Mexican election. Their reporter was in some public square in Mexico City or something, reporting on some protests for one candidate or the other (I wasn't paying close attention). Then the reporter said something like, "those protests broke up earlier this morning, the chanting you hear behind me is some other protest, we don't really know what for, but it probably has to do with the indigenous people." Um, didn't ya think you might want to ask what the protest was about before filing your report?

1 Comments:

At 9:03 PM, Anonymous katie said...

Holy crap, did he really say that? That's horrible! I'm sure there are a couple of other places in Mexico city where he could have posted his report from...

 

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