Taxicab Confessions
Attywood documents a eye-rolling moment of journamalism courtesy of "The Most Trusted Name In News":
OK, you can't say that CNN and its diplomatic reporter, Richard Ross, don't care about the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. In fact, just seconds ago "Your Trusted Name in News" just aired one of the few full-length reports I've seen on the situation in Darfur, or more accurately the situation on 42nd Street in Manhattan, since the story was merely an interview with a cab driver who happens to have immigrated from Darfur.Apparently Tom Friedman, the Pulitizer Prize winner of global cabbie journalism, is advising CNN now.
I kept waiting for the twist in the story, but there was no twist. That was the entire story. CNN found a guy from Darfur who now drives a cab in New York. (Although, as I learned from the story, there are apparently 100 others like him.)
I tried to capture some of the highlights of the interview -- here's one:
"Do you get bigger tips because you're from Darfur?" "...No."A well-dressed woman enters the man's (unfortunately I didn't catch his name) taxi:
"When did you come here?"
"Eight years ago.""Oh, before the genocide."
A-Oh-Hell/Time Warner gets billions of dollars in revenue, but can't afford a fucking plane ticket to the Sudan? And the wonder why less people bother to watch or read the American press nowadays?
(via Crooks and Liars)