Comments on: Back home http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/09/back-home/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:03:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Angel http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/09/back-home/#comment-88437 Angel Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:12:30 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=1746#comment-88437 I love Global Voices, one of the very few places where you can get a true sense of what is happening in the world withou the usual filters in the United States (assuming U.S. News even picks up on something international at all other than the "usual"). Heck, if a news agency needs someone to find their Latin American coverage, identify it, and even translate from Spanish, let me know. It does sound like an interesting job. I do have to agree with the point Peter makes. It often seems we lack activists here to be concerned about the many issues happening here in our backyard. Whatever happend to "charity begins at home." I hate to sound insensitive, but for one example, maybe the U.S. should declare war on New Orleans, bomb the hell out of it, then send the stuff to rebuild it. But, at this point, we are disgressing. I do agree, local papers have such potential to be the source for the local information, and they seem to miss it or spurn it. Best, and keep on blogging. I love Global Voices, one of the very few places where you can get a true sense of what is happening in the world withou the usual filters in the United States (assuming U.S. News even picks up on something international at all other than the “usual”). Heck, if a news agency needs someone to find their Latin American coverage, identify it, and even translate from Spanish, let me know. It does sound like an interesting job.

I do have to agree with the point Peter makes. It often seems we lack activists here to be concerned about the many issues happening here in our backyard. Whatever happend to “charity begins at home.” I hate to sound insensitive, but for one example, maybe the U.S. should declare war on New Orleans, bomb the hell out of it, then send the stuff to rebuild it. But, at this point, we are disgressing. I do agree, local papers have such potential to be the source for the local information, and they seem to miss it or spurn it.

Best, and keep on blogging.

]]> By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Who needs critics? http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/09/back-home/#comment-88292 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Who needs critics? Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:54:30 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=1746#comment-88292 [...] And today, as newspapers’ budgets shrink, as they close foreign bureaus, the last thing they need is more network flackery they can get from the PR Newswire instead. [...] [...] And today, as newspapers’ budgets shrink, as they close foreign bureaus, the last thing they need is more network flackery they can get from the PR Newswire instead. [...]

]]> By: Peter S. Lopez http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/09/back-home/#comment-87810 Peter S. Lopez Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:16:22 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=1746#comment-87810 <b>Sunday ~ I got your link watching CNN this morning and like it so far. I agree with the importance of local reporting. I am a humane activist in Sacramento and it cracks me up when local activists are so concerned about relevant issues in Iraq thousands of miles away, yet, generally ignore local issues, such as, homelessness, street drug addiction, the need for voter registration work etc. In a way it is like focusing on foreign news as a kind of escapism from local responsibilities as a social activist.</b> Sunday ~ I got your link watching CNN this morning and like it so far.

I agree with the importance of local reporting. I am a humane activist in Sacramento and it cracks me up when local activists are so concerned about relevant issues in Iraq thousands of miles away, yet, generally ignore local issues, such as, homelessness, street drug addiction, the need for voter registration work etc.

In a way it is like focusing on foreign news as a kind of escapism from local responsibilities as a social activist.

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