“I am depressed … I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain … of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners…I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.”
Those were the words left in the suicide note of Kevin Carter, the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘journalism’
The chains of journalism
Posted in News, ethics, tagged Humanity, journalism, Kevin Carter, Mark MacKinnon, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Elections on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Deadlines face extinction in Halton
Posted in deadlines, tagged due dates, Halton, journalism, media, students on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So apparently students in the Halton School district are no longer subject to pesky things like deadlines.
This is what I learned a couple days ago through Lorraine Sommerfeld’s column in the Toronto Star. Her piece, suitably titled “Memo to schools: Even Blockbuster has due date”, highlighted a new policy enacted by the Halton School Board [...]