Archive for the 'journalism' Category
I just finished reading an article by Dan Silverstein, Criminally Negligent Homicide: The Legacy of Wealthy Nations That Allow Millions to Die and now… I understand a little better how the corrupted powers that be sleep (or don’t) at night.
This is what I’m talking about:
Ethiopians die of thirst literally on the banks of the Blue Nile [...]
I’m a thin man, with some flab around the waist. Alas, I’m no model, I am an amateur photographer. I have no experience as a commercial photographer, and most of the images (featuring female models) found on my RedBubble page haven’t produced a single cent for me or for the model. I rarely ever airbrush a model’s [...]
An overwhelming sensation of grattitude came over area man, Luis Fernando Alejos, when his buddy gBrl Adderley brought him not 1, but 11 issues of The Onion, from his recent NY visit. His face couldn’t help but adopt a grotesque expression. “I know he means well”, declared Adderley, as he prepared to leave the scene [...]
…that was not wise of you. Chances are, you won’t get the interview now, or at least: I’ll let you sweat a little and hold out, like the celebrity I am in my mind.
It didn’t take long for me to be completely offended by this biassed article about Twitter use in Guatemala and Iran. I usually don’t write people to give them a piece of my mind, but this time the author -Elizabeth Lazar- crossed the line. I share with you my e-mail:
Dear Elizabeth:
As a fellow writer and guatemalan [...]
Does your country enacts its officials to persecute “enemies of the state”? Mine does.
Does your country allows president elects that have confessed to assassinations, to take office? Mine does.
Does your country asks state employees to “donate” part of their wages to the official party? Mine does.
Does your country rounds up people from rural and urban [...]
Guatemala’s current political and social mayhem (derived from the recent execution of a whistle blower attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg) has proved that social media is not a place where you can speak your mind without fear of retribution. Guatemalan tweeter Jean Ramses Anleu Fernández, an information technology worker, was arrested today, charged with “financial panic”. Here’s [...]
My main current source of employment is as a copywriter/co-editor of an upcoming magazine. I just got feedback of an article I rewrote and submitted over the weekend. I don’t know how many journalists go through this, but I really hate editing my work (even though I know it’s part of the process, and that [...]
Granted I haven’t finished it (I still got 44 minutes to go), Zeitgeist Addendum, a breakthrough documentary about how the monetary system is esentially evil, is scaring me into oblivion. If you got a couple of hours to spare, and a decent web connection, you can see it here at Google Video:
Guatemala is the place where even that had no previous negative connotation, can turn sour in the drop of an eyelash. Yes, we have a uber tattooed criminal that was just captured. His alias? You guessed it… Smiley. Kinda reminds me of that character from Training Day.
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