Online journalists (OK, us) are always banging on about the need to be treated with the same respect/disdain as print or broadcast reporters — no less legitimate and bound by the same set of expectations. But in Mexico they may be taking that concept too far…
Mexico has always been one of most dangerous places in the world for journalists, or anyone for that matter, who dared to report on or speak out against the drug cartels.
According to Reporters without Borders, 80 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. Four journalists have been killed in the last month, including María Elizabeth Macías, the editor of a Nuevo Laredo newspaper.
Maria was found decapitated with a handwritten message linking her murder — not to the coverage of the drug wars in her paper — but to her postings on social networks.
The cartels have moved online.
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Nothing more revealing than spying on the spines of your new conquest/competition/nemesis’ bookshelf, with the notable exception of their vinyl collection (or lack thereof) and/or shopping trolley.
Thanks to @ambiej for “Awesome Stacks of Books Found in Offices.”
Take, for example, the New York Observer‘s Arts & Culture desk:
Show offs. You have to strain to see the titles too much on these pics for my liking… zoom in, man. Seems like he’s furtively shooting from the hip…
A slightly more highbrow version of this concept can be found at It’s Nice That.
Each author/artist/literary type is asked to give a rundown of the books on their shelf — I like book buyer for the UK’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) & host of regular literary nights for Luminous Books Louisa Bailey for form, function, bonus ladder and rundown of the book she was reading at the time The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
I’d never heard of Carson McCullers until I was gifted this book by the Women of Letters ladyfolk. Sickeningly, Carson was only 23 when she wrote it. Bailey’s blurb reads:
I am reading this book at the moment following on from research for a Southern Gothic themed event earlier in the year at Luminous Books. Carson McCullers is one of the most important female writers in the Southern Gothic genre of the 20th Century. Her novels and poetry are perceptive and intimate studies in love and loneliness, separation and spiritual isolation against the backdrop of dusty American small towns of the Deep South. McCullers is attentive to the lives of misfits, outsiders and social recluses and slowly describes a certain delicate difficulty in attempting to express desires, the various failings and rare moments of clarity in making human connections.
What she said.
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*Smash.* Consider this a champagne bottle against the hull.
Satisfying. And delicious.
The only way to deal with first post jitters is to get it over n done with.
So here it is: a new editor’s blog, replete with recommended reading/occasional rants/things/no navel lint.* Read More »
