How will they know? The dilemma of foreign affairs journalism
By PNG Echo She had been hacked with a machete – opened up from her sternum to her pelvis. Her intestines were exposed and spilling out from her cut abdomen. She’d been disemboweled. The graphic pictures that appeared on Facebook came with the explanation that this was done to her, by her husband, in retaliation for adultery. Were it in the Middle East, we’d shake our heads and maybe say: “It’s typical of those radical Muslims with their Sharia Law and their lack of respect for women,” wouldn’t we?” Well it wasn’t. This occurred in a stridently Christian country from Continue reading How will they know? The dilemma of foreign affairs journalism
