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Now on YouTube: Libya–Race, Empire, and the Invention of Humanitarian Emergency

October 23, 2012 by Maximilian Forte

While the audio is somewhat clearer, and the video motion is “smoother” for those using older computers, the disadvantage is that the video had to be cut into two parts given restrictions placed on my account by YouTube. Overall, however, the file sizes are smaller than they were originally, so the video should also be […]

Glimpses of What the Mainstream Media Might Have Told Us About Afghanistan

August 14, 2009 by Maximilian Forte

Recently a debate broke out across blogs, think tanks, counterinsurgency advocates, and academics, concerning what is apparently the near total absence of any debate, any questioning, any discussion about why the U.S. (and by implication the rest of us in NATO) should remain in Afghanistan, even less so about why Afghanistan should have been invaded […]

CNN’s “Mondo Cane”: Screaming Muslim Babies in India, and Gawking Journalists (updated)

May 2, 2008 by Maximilian Forte

CNN aired a piece on a “baby dropping ritual” in India in the Anderson Cooper segment last night, accompanied by Cooper’s wincing, and news reader Erica Hill’s raised voice exclaiming: “Look at that!“. The transcript on the CNN website is titled, in the mode of the gawker: “Villagers throw babies from temple roof“. Given the […]

Browsing All posts tagged under »CNN«

Now on YouTube: Libya–Race, Empire, and the Invention of Humanitarian Emergency

Glimpses of What the Mainstream Media Might Have Told Us About Afghanistan

CNN’s “Mondo Cane”: Screaming Muslim Babies in India, and Gawking Journalists (updated)

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