Can't we find a good way to tell this story now
A few days ago I was sitting in a room in central Egypt talking with reporters and NGO officials about how to tell the story about child brides, and child labor and all the bad things that happen when poverty swallows hopes and ambitions.
We talked about campaigns where the news media work with the NGOs to get things done and after some grumbling, some complaints and some uncertainty, folks agree that their problems were too important not to do anything. That was in Egypt.
And that is what I’m thinking about now and about Chicago. We’ve had a heap of violence lately and so isn’t this time to do something special?
Why can’t the news media that serves Chicago’s black and Latino neighbors form partnerships and set a goal of telling this story and telling it in as many ways as possible until it is not a story of heartbreak and loss anymore. Amen.
Any thoughts? Any suggestions?
Stephen
And here is a wonderfully thought out story about immigrant workers. It takes place in Decatur, Ill. It can be a good guide for another one of the hundreds of tales of immigrant workers who die or suffer severe losses on the job and who suffer from the lack of justice.
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