Sunday, January 1, 2012

Kristof on Celebrities, and News That Matters vs. News That Gets Covered

Nicholas Kristof:

Frankly, it’s just humiliating when news organizations cover George Clooney (my travel buddy on one Darfur trip) more attentively when he breaks up with a girlfriend than when he travels to Sudan and uses satellite photos to catch the Sudanese government committing mass atrocities.

H/t Mark Sumner @ DailyKos.

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