With few exceptions (some of the correspondents covering apartheid South Africa — when the nature of the ‘conflict’ was obvious — and more recently the writing of its West Africa Bureau Chief, Howard French), the New York Times‘ Africa coverage has noticeably deteriorated. Case in point is the reporting that accompany the political violence in [...]
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The New York Times’ tribal atavism
Posted in H-Africa, Howard French, Jeffrey Gettleman, Jomo Kenyatta, New York Times on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It must be black-on-black violence
Posted in Jeffrey Gettleman, journalism, Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, New York Times, politics on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The post-election violence in Kenya has, not surprisingly, brought out the worse in mainstream Western (particularly United States, and of course the more conservative British) media. For example, the New York Times’ correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman went on about ‘an atavistic vein of tribal tension that always lay beneath the surface in Kenya ..’ He’s been [...]
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