...t.” I don’t think so. I think that research was sort of, pretty, I won’t say naïve, but it was preliminary, and the brain isn’t really divided into these departments in the way that we thought it was, so it’s going to make my journalist job a little bit harder, but the idea that we can kind of gain access to the locus of ourselves is such a cool thing. Who knows where it’s going to go. CPR: As a composer, music arranger, and editor, how does that...
...about the time of Facebook’s launch, and years before the Kony 2012 social media campaign – traditional media outlets were beginning to show interest in the conflict. At that time, the LRA reached out to Mareike Schomerus, a journalist who had interviewed former LRA combatants, wanting her to facilitate peace talks. Schomerus, in cooperation with Sam Farmar, conducted a video interview with Kony that was subsequently sold to BBC’s Newsnight and...
...er-left economic goals as a priority. He has no background of corruption and had a very successful term as mayor of Mexico City. In response some of Mexico’s most respected academics like human rights activist Lydia Cacho and journalist Sergio Aguayo have come out to proclaim their support for the PRD, hoping to end the fascist discourse against him. Today’s Mexico suffers from amnesia and it trembles with fear at the sound of change. I do not ho...
...ey are incapacitated by illness? Would allowing those who cannot pay for treatment to be debilitated by sickness be akin to imposing a minimum income level for full participation in society? What good is freedom of press to a journalist who cannot hold a pen because of her untreated arthritis? As much as Mitt Romney was maligned for saying he did “not care about the poor – we have a safety net there,” his argument carries weight. Medicare, for al...
...their own destiny.” The Interim Dean of the African Studies Department, Dr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne, took over as moderator of an audience Q&A. The most probing audience question of the afternoon pertained to support of journalists and human rights activists who uncovered government shortcomings. The question pointedly referred to Mae Azango – a Liberian journalist who wrote a controversial expose on female genital circumcision in cer...
...eem the revolution a failure. But this entirely misses the point of the revolution, of the Arab Spring as a whole. In The Invisible Arab, an agonizingly opinionated but important and honest book on the Arab Spring, Al-Jazeera journalist Marwan Bishara makes a powerful statement that we often take for granted. “The Arab Spring,” he writes, “is exclusively Arab.” It is not American. It does not abide by American rules, and it does not hold to Ameri...
...al independence day, Guardiola released a video of himself holding up a symbolic ballot, backing the call for an independence referendum. Though the move was met with the expected euphoria among independence marchers, Spanish journalists agreed that the most successful living Spanish coach had effectively made any future aspiration to coach the Spanish national team untenable. Of course, this may not have mattered to him; when asked about his nat...
Part II of Two Part Series After a sumptuous dinner and well-deserved break, Hamdy Qandil, the widely respected journalist and Nasserist spoke on the state of the media in Egypt in a talk entitled “Revolutionary Media: The Changing Role of Journalism and Technology.” His talk was filled with personal anecdotes and stories, and the audience’s reaction made clear that, at least among the older members, he was an admired, trustworthy, and familiar...
...f the Columbia Institute of Latin American Studies; Luiz Felipe d’Avila, Political Scientist and President of CLP (Centro de Liderança Pública); and Indio de Costa, Lawyer and Secretary of Sport of the City of Rio de Janeiro. Journalist Lucia Guimares served as moderator for this event. The discussion began with the mention of the infamous Mensalao scandal in 2005, which threatened to bring down the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The sc...
...l factors involved, and look beyond the fear-mongering narrative pushed forth by the mainstream media. I don’t agree with Richard Falk’s history of outlandish comments, but I am not about to question his capacity as an honest journalist. If he reveals Meshaal’s deputy told him that the clause calling for Israel’s destruction is a “false issue,” then I am not going to dispute it just because of his controversial record. That’s not to say that I vi...
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