Truth Dealer

Drowning in Triviality: Celebrity-Obsession Is Like a Drug

If you’ve managed to sit through an entire TV evening news bulletin, you begin to realise that the word “news” is highly subjective.   Much of what is presented as news is really not-news. Not-news is pretty much a combination of overly-long irrelevant sentimental pieces mixed with banal celebrity voyeurism. Just a brief perusal of TV news over [...]

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Enraged: The Ugly Face of Suffering

Using shock tactics to invoke a response is questionable, but sometimes a picture conveys so much more than words. The girl in the foreground is Asan Bibi. She is 9. She is from an ethnic minority group (kuchi nomad tribe) in Afghanistan who are tent dwellers. Her family’s tent was fired upon by a helicopter on Oct [...]

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