"Freedom means, this is who I am..."

A reporter delved into her memories, just to confront again the image of her being rapped. From this look into herself, an amazing story hatched out. This is what journalism is all about.

Nieman Narrative Digest
Beyond RapeFacing her rape, a survivor uncovers a universe of grief and violence

Newspapers struggle with representing incendiary topics in a way that explains without exploiting. Last month, The Plain Dealer’s Joanna Connors addressed sexual assault, poverty, and race in a single project. “Beyond Rape,” a 16-page supplement to the Cleveland newspaper, recounts Connors’ rape decades ago then traces her efforts to find her rapist, his family, and his other victims.

“Beyond Rape” delivers on its title literally via Connors’ first person narration of breaking the hold the rape had on her life. But the project goes beyond the assault in other senses, too, by placing the rape in its social context and using sidebars to give readers safety tips and statistics on sexual assault. Read the story.

It is worth it:http://www.cleveland.com/beyondrape/index.ssf/2008/05/editors_note.html

Tacos! Tacos!, lleve sus tacos

Comentario de Miguel, un nuevo carnal
Sobre la nota de la Contanza sobre los precios de los combustibles. Un buen tip para la banda chambeadora. Gracias Miguel por el tip.

Estos precios de gasolina nos estan matando. No se que vamos hacer. Imaginate. Que si suben los precios a $10 el tanque. Seria horrendo. Has visto lo que va hacer Jack-In-The-Box? Van a estar dando dos tacos gratis nomas con que traigas el recibo de la gasolina. El evento se dara acabo el JUEVES 26 de JUNIO. Este jueves que viene. Aqui esta el link: http://www.jackinthebox.com/twofreetacosdayTWO FREE TACOS DAY!!!Va a estar a toda madre. Dejales saber a todos los que conozcas.

Gas prices torturing immigrant workers

De la Concha que además de excelente contadora de historias es mi carnala.

Fuel costs sending immigrants back to Mexico
By CONSTANZA MORALES


FORT WORTH — The bus that ferries workers twice daily to the Day Labor Center in south Fort Worth is partially empty, but the center’s parking lot is nearly full.
Soon there won’t be enough room to accommodate the vehicles of the workers, who have to drive to the center because contractors are more likely to hire them if they have their own transportation.
But high gas prices are forcing contractors and day laborers to change how they do business, which is causing a ripple effect in other areas.

For the rest of the story follow the link: http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/710321.html

"Freedom means, this is who I am..."

A reporter delved into her memories, just to confront again the image of her being rapped. From this look into herself, an amazing story hatched out. This is what journalism is all about.


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Beyond Rape
Facing her rape, a survivor uncovers a universe of grief and violence
Newspapers struggle with representing incendiary topics in a way that explains without exploiting. Last month, The Plain Dealer’s Joanna Connors addressed sexual assault, poverty, and race in a single project. “Beyond Rape,” a 16-page supplement to the Cleveland newspaper, recounts Connors’ rape decades ago then traces her efforts to find her rapist, his family, and his other victims.“Beyond Rape” delivers on its title literally via Connors’ first person narration of breaking the hold the rape had on her life. But the project goes beyond the assault in other senses, too, by placing the rape in its social context and using sidebars to give readers safety tips and statistics on sexual assault.

Read the story. It is worth it:
http://www.cleveland.com/beyondrape/index.ssf/2008/05/editors_note.html

Madiba's b-day is close, just a reminder

“… it is always the oppressor, not the oppressed, who dictates the form of the struggle. If the oppressor uses violence, the oppressed have no alternative but to respond violently. ”
– Mr Nelson Mandela. Long Walk to Freedom, p641.

For more info on this big carnal, go to: http://www.nelsonmandela.org/

Even when everybody already knows it, it is dismal to admit it. The old-fashioned-way of doing journalism is becoming a dying craft. If newspaper copy editors vanish from the earth, no one is going to notice. Y que todos pongas sus barbas a remojar.

In a Changing World of News, an Elegy for Copy Editors

From the NY Times

By LAWRENCE DOWNES
Published: June 16, 2008

I went to the Newseum, a shiny new building in Washington that news companies and foundations have erected as a shrine to their industry. Since it’s my industry, too, I thought a museum, where sacred relics and texts have been placed safely in the equivalent of a big glass jar, might make me hopeful about the future.

“Where’s the section on copy editing?” I asked the guy at the entrance.
He wasn’t sure. “Try Internet, TV and Radio, on the third floor.”
“For copy editing? Newspaper copy editing?”
He checked with a colleague. “News History, on five,” she said.

Fort the rest of the story, follow tha link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/opinion/16mon4.html?em&ex=1213761600&en=eab66656fe5d3ec4&ei=5087%0A