10 Stories
The UN goes to press with invisible stories:
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the motivation behind it:
There were more (for the full list, see www.un.org/events/tenstories). But why go on? None of the top-flight international journalists who turned up at my press conference to launch the list actually wrote about our list. I got a lot of air-time on the U.S. public broadcasting system and one interview on CNN International (not domestic), and a lot of silence. We are persisting, though: In recent weeks, newspapers as far afield as Egypt and Hong Kong have carried the list.
We know we are making the smallest of dents in the public consciousness, but we could not forgive ourselves if we didn't try.
Four decades ago the newsman Edward Behr came across a TV cameraman in a camp of violated Belgian nuns in the Congo calling out, "anybody here been raped and speak English?"
* Ray, 7/14/2004 07:12:53 PM
