Saturday, September 30, 2006

Sensationalism


Again, same paper, same day. One of the reasons I love the GDN is for the sensationalism of it, Arabic style. This article was about an Indian woman who was told to intentionally fall down stairs or jump off of a building to kill her unborn fetus. And the person telling her that? Her sponsor, the person who brings said person here from another country to work for him/her. This country is fucked up when it comes to the lower classes, that's for sure. It's like a modernized version of slavery. And, this type of article is far from uncommon in this paper. I've seen variations of this story dozens of times. My favorite so far was one where the sponsor had his maid arrested because he found birth control in her room. BIRTH CONTROL.

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