What do you say to someone in a refugee camp who spots an American journalist and starts to remove their bandages because they assume you want to take a grisly photo of the wound? Sometimes, doing journalism can feel like shopping at a misery bazaar. The best journalists avoid disaster porn (
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“We wanted to show that we weren’t casting doubt on womens’ stories of rape, but shedding light on our own complicity as consumers of foreign news.”
I believe that’s what you achieved with this episode. That’s certainly what I remember thinking about it at the time when I listened to the episode