Archive for 2012
‘Why Do They Still Hate Us?’
I got the question this past weekend from my mother-in-law. My colleague got the same question from her mother-in-law: “Why do they still hate us,” they wanted to know [...]
Just Trying To Get By
As a journalist living and working in a foreign country, I like to think of myself as being culturally sensitive and aware regardless of where I’m reporting from. But I hadn’t realized that the pressures of being a journalist can dampen some of that sensitivity.
Live Chat: Kidney Ailment Linked to Farm Chemicals
The World’s Rhitu Chatterjee joins journalists Sasha Chavkin and Anna Barry-Jester in a live online chat, where they will take your questions about the reporting behind their series on kidney disease in India, Sri Lanka and South America.
PRI’s The World: 09/19/2012 (South Africa, India, Poland)
A security alert in France after a magazine there publishes offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Also, China’s missing leader-in-waiting reappears to meet with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Plus, an Oregon businessman refuses to take down a mural that annoys China.
French Magazine Publishes Offensive Cartoons Depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad
France issued a security alert on Wednesday after the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published offensive cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
Cartoon Slideshow: Is Freedom of Speech the Freedom to Provoke?
The offensive Muhammad video and the Muhammad cartoons in the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo have cartoonists musing over whether there are limits to freedom of speech. Their declarations are sometimes gentle, sometimes forceful, and sometimes completely equivocal.
New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority to Run an Anti-Islam Ad Campaign it Finds ‘Demeaning’
Next Monday, New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority will run– against its will–an ad campaign that it finds “demeaning.” The add reads: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.” And it concludes “Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”
Oregon Mural Irks China
A Taiwanese-American businessman in Corvallis, Oregon, has put up a large mural depicting China’s crackdown on Tibet and on Taiwanese independence. It’s caught the attention of Chinese authorities. They sent two Chinese consulate officials to Corvallis to ask the mayor to have it removed but the mayor said no.
Big Retailers Face Resistance in India
India is bracing for nationwide strikes on Thursday. Many stores will close to protest the Indian government’s decision to open the country to big, Western retailers like Wal-Mart.
Poland Discovers 17th Century Looted Art in River
A once sunken treasure emerges in our Geo Quiz. A drought in Central Europe has caused Poland’s longest river to recede near Warsaw, exposing tons of long lost stonework and marble. It was looted from Polish palaces and castles centuries ago during a 1655 Swedish invasion, and ended up at the bottom of the river when the barge hauling it to the port of Gdansk sank.
Music Heard on Air for September 19, 2012
Tunes spun on The World between our reports for September 19, 2012. Artists featured are: Alison Brown, Yin Tsang, AfroCubism, Seckou Keita Skq, Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate.
Defense Secretary Panetta Meets with China’s Xi Jinping
China’s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping held his first talks with a foreign official since vanishing from the public eye nearly two weeks ago. He met with US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with The World’s Mary Kay Magistad in Beijing.
Green on Blue Attacks on the Rise in Afghanistan
Defense Secretary Panetta spoke Wednesday about tensions in Afghanistan. He touched on the issue of attacks by Afghan soldiers on coalition soldiers: so-called Green on Blue attacks.
Fragile Future for Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is a nation on the brink of change. What exactly is this change and how it will play out is the subject of the new book, “On Saudi Arabia,” by journalist Karen Elliott House.
South Africa: Miners Strike Deal, but Official Unions Strike Out
Platinum miners in South Africa have won a 22 percent wage hike. But reporter Gia Nicolaides tells host Aaron Schachter the deal hasn’t brought an end to the wildcat labor unrest that’s now widespread in South Africa’s mining industry, and it hasn’t been a victory for official unions.
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