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Today, on Radio 3’s
Sunday Feature, the vastly experienced journalist Allan Little considers Susan Sontag’s 2003 essay
Regarding the Pain of Others. In the essay, Sontag wonders about the ethics of war journalism, particularly photography. Do pictures of the horrors of war engage the viewer or make us turn away?
Little has spent decades reporting from places such as Sierra Leone and Bosnia. He met Sontag in Sarajevo (she was making a theatre piece – a previous Radio 3 documentary,
Afterwords, discusses this); they drank whisky and became friendly. Little’s subject isn’t Sontag, however. Over 45 packed minutes he picks at the idea of war reporting being neutral, unframed “reality”, and also that such reporting might change the way the world works. He describes how he and other reporters are driven by the belief that “we could move peop
After more than a year of staying home, families combine travel and reunions as restrictions loosen
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After more than a year of staying home, families combine travel and reunions as restrictions loosenNew York Times
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Travelling together will also offer families a chance to reconnect offline after many months of Skype and screen time.
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Jeff Belcher, 41, wouldn’t necessarily have chosen Williamsburg, Virginia, as the destination for his family’s first vacation since travel restrictions began to ease. But when his extended family decided to travel to the American Revolution-era town for a reunion this summer, he knew that he, his wife and their three children wouldn’t miss it.
Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/11428 CPGB : Time to tell the truth
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The pathetic intervention of the CPGB at the AWL-Machover on Sunday has been followed by an even more pathetic write up in its paper, the Weekly Worker (16 October). Interestingly, it does not print what its own comrades said – as we have in Solidarity – since to do so would expose the apolitical poverty of their contributions.
The CPGB gave out a leaflet headed “time for politics” at the debate – yet none of its speakers said anything substantial about either Israel-Palestine or about Iran. Instead, the tone was set by the hysterical Ben Lewis, and reiterated by editor Peter Manson and “guru” John Bridge – lying about Sean Matgamna in order to whip up left public opinion against the AWL.
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This article contains spoilers. Scroll down to find out if Montaigne made it through to the final.
A Eurovision Song Contest like no other has kicked off in Rotterdam after last year’s glitz and theatrics were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The first of two semi-finals for the competition’s 65
th edition began on Wednesday morning (AEST) in the Netherlands in front of a limited live audience and amid various COVID-safe precautions.
Australia’s 2021 Eurovision representative, Sydney singer-songwriter Montaigne, has not travelled to the event. Instead, a pre-recorded video performance of her song Technicolour beamed into the venue and on screens across the world.