Comments for Communicating majority world http://lostalien.wordpress.com Exploring social and ethical impacts of communications technology and mass media in the global South Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:15:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Ethical News gathering challenge for Al Jazeera International by lol http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2006/12/27/ethical-news-gathering-challenge-for-al-jazeera-international/#comment-167 lol Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:15:47 +0000 http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2006/12/27/ethical-news-gathering-challenge-for-al-jazeera-international/#comment-167 <a href="http://index1.trackting.com" rel="nofollow">bro. steve harris video productions</a> bro. steve harris video productions

]]> Comment on The Hijacking of the Development Debate – an interesting analysis by marco http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2007/01/01/the-hijacking-of-the-development-debate-an-interesting-analysis/#comment-59 marco Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:53:21 +0000 http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2007/01/01/the-hijacking-of-the-development-debate-an-interesting-analysis/#comment-59 BONOVOX -Words from the apprentice God. BONOVOX -Words from the apprentice God.

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]]> Comment on About by Mars http://lostalien.wordpress.com/about/#comment-11 Mars Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:10:00 +0000 #comment-11 Came your way via a search for input into UJALA TV, and I'm hooked. Hope you are returning to the blogging world soon.. Came your way via a search for input into UJALA TV, and I’m hooked. Hope you are returning to the blogging world soon..

]]> Comment on The Hijacking of the Development Debate – an interesting analysis by torchwolf http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2007/01/01/the-hijacking-of-the-development-debate-an-interesting-analysis/#comment-7 torchwolf Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:28:36 +0000 http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2007/01/01/the-hijacking-of-the-development-debate-an-interesting-analysis/#comment-7 Obviously people who take a different view than Sachs might consider the prominence of his views as "hijacking the debate" and taking it from where they think it should be. In the same way that the Pope would think people campaigning for condom-use are "hijacking the AIDS prevention debate" from where it should rightfully be. Frankly, what have the likes of Broad and Kavanagh actually achieved for the poor? A drib here and a drab there, in all their decades of debate, maybe? Obviously people who take a different view than Sachs might consider the prominence of his views as “hijacking the debate” and taking it from where they think it should be.

In the same way that the Pope would think people campaigning for condom-use are “hijacking the AIDS prevention debate” from where it should rightfully be.

Frankly, what have the likes of Broad and Kavanagh actually achieved for the poor?

A drib here and a drab there, in all their decades of debate, maybe?

]]> Comment on The Hijacking of the Development Debate – an interesting analysis by Sandra http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2007/01/01/the-hijacking-of-the-development-debate-an-interesting-analysis/#comment-6 Sandra Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:09:59 +0000 http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2007/01/01/the-hijacking-of-the-development-debate-an-interesting-analysis/#comment-6 I agree there is some 'star power' in people like Bono and Geldof and they are sincerely applying that for creating a better world. But I would not categorise Jeffrey Sachs in the same league. He is a very smart, articulate and ambitious academic who is unashamedly an apologist for free-market globalisation. He probably has his eye on the Nobel Prize for economics, and wants to do the politically correct things to impress the Nobel selectors, but his track record in advising developing countries and economies in transition is as a ruthless free market advocate. He might dispense economics a bit more cautiously than the World Bank/IMF duo, but at the end of the day he is on the same side, despite his attempts to set himself apart. I fully agree that Sachs has hijacked the development debate. He is like a modern-day Pied Piper of Hamlyn -- shame on the development community to have allowed themselves to be lulled and lured by a smooth-talking, agenda-setting academic like Jeffrey Sachs. I hope the Broad-Cavanagh paper will wake up at least a few of these people who are in awe of Sachs. Thanks for posting this paper. It is an eye-opener. I agree there is some ’star power’ in people like Bono and Geldof and they are sincerely applying that for creating a better world. But I would not categorise Jeffrey Sachs in the same league. He is a very smart, articulate and ambitious academic who is unashamedly an apologist for free-market globalisation. He probably has his eye on the Nobel Prize for economics, and wants to do the politically correct things to impress the Nobel selectors, but his track record in advising developing countries and economies in transition is as a ruthless free market advocate. He might dispense economics a bit more cautiously than the World Bank/IMF duo, but at the end of the day he is on the same side, despite his attempts to set himself apart.

I fully agree that Sachs has hijacked the development debate. He is like a modern-day Pied Piper of Hamlyn — shame on the development community to have allowed themselves to be lulled and lured by a smooth-talking, agenda-setting academic like Jeffrey Sachs. I hope the Broad-Cavanagh paper will wake up at least a few of these people who are in awe of Sachs.

Thanks for posting this paper. It is an eye-opener.

]]> Comment on About by Manori http://lostalien.wordpress.com/about/#comment-4 Manori Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:36:19 +0000 #comment-4 Thanks for flagging the interesting article "Hijacking etc". http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2007/01/01/the-hijacking-of-the-development-debate-an-interesting-analysis/ But I'm now heartily tired of authors like Broad and cavanagh who think they if their perspective is included, ONLY then can we actually achieve something. While many roads don't lead to heaven, many paths and worldviews can combine in making this world a better place for all of us to live - free of hunger, pollution, depravity and violence. And it looks like your blog's going to be an interesting op-ed for the controversial-minded! Keep it up - and keep stirring things up! Thanks for flagging the interesting article “Hijacking etc”. http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2007/01/01/the-hijacking-of-the-development-debate-an-interesting-analysis/

But I’m now heartily tired of authors like Broad and cavanagh who think they if their perspective is included, ONLY then can we actually achieve something. While many roads don’t lead to heaven, many paths and worldviews can combine in making this world a better place for all of us to live – free of hunger, pollution, depravity and violence.

And it looks like your blog’s going to be an interesting op-ed for the controversial-minded! Keep it up – and keep stirring things up!

]]> Comment on Grappling with Asia’s ‘Tsunami of the Air’ by Jayasri Hart http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/grappling-with-asias-tsunami-of-the-air/#comment-3 Jayasri Hart Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:56:13 +0000 http://lostalien.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/grappling-with-asias-tsunami-of-the-air/#comment-3 This is a crusade that is more than urgent. I had as close a call as Saneeya Hussain when I was in my 30s. It was 1987, I had just moved to Los Angeles from India, and it wasn't pollution that nearly did me in. It was faulty medication. I had developed allergies to the dry L.A. air and the steroids in the antihistamine gave me asthma. Recently, a Norwegian neighbor was medicated for asthma and ended up with a racing heart that nearly killed her. She will be on medication the rest of her life. I understand big pharma not being interested in prevention, but what about parents? This is a crusade that is more than urgent. I had as close a call as Saneeya Hussain when I was in my 30s. It was 1987, I had just moved to Los Angeles from India, and it wasn’t pollution that nearly did me in. It was faulty medication. I had developed allergies to the dry L.A. air and the steroids in the antihistamine gave me asthma. Recently, a Norwegian neighbor was medicated for asthma and ended up with a racing heart that nearly killed her. She will be on medication the rest of her life. I understand big pharma not being interested in prevention, but what about parents?

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