You would be hard-pressed to find a "better" example of a walking, talking, typing Old Media double standard-bearer than New York Times columnist and International Herald Tribune (IHT) contributor Nicholas Kristof. Keep in mind as you read this post that Kristof infamously wrote the following in a 2005 New York Times book review about the person who was " the worst monster in world history," China's Mao Tse-tung ( Mao Zedong ): ..... his legacy is not all bad ..... The emancipation of women and end of child marriages moved China from one of the worst places in the world to be a girl to one where women have more equality than in, say, Japan or Korea. ..... Mao’s ruthlessness was a catastrophe at the time ..... yet there’s more to the story: Mao also helped lay the groundwork for the rebirth and rise of China after five centuries of slumber. Here is Kristof describing an example of what is currently happening in Zimbabwe in the June 29 IHT (bold after headline is mine): If only Mugabe were white Patson Chipiro, a democracy activist, wasn't home when Robert Mugabe's thugs showed up looking for him. So they grabbed his wife, Dadirai, and tormented her by chopping off one of her hands and both of her feet. Finally, they threw her into a hut, locked the door and burned it to the ground. This is really hard to take. In Nick’s world, to chop off body parts to intimidate political opponents is to “ torment .” The headline is more accurate ...
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You would be hard-pressed to find a "better" example of a walking, talking, typing Old Media double standard-bearer than New York Times columnist and International Herald Tribune (IHT) contributor Nicholas Kristof. Keep in mind as you read this post that Kristof infamously wrote the following in a 2005 New York Times book review about the person who was " the worst monster in world history," China's Mao Tse-tung ( Mao Zedong ): ..... his legacy is not all bad ..... The emancipation of women and end of child marriages moved China from one of the worst places in the world to be a girl to one where women have more equality than in, say, Japan or Korea. ..... Mao’s ruthlessness was a catastrophe at the time ..... yet there’s more to the story: Mao also helped lay the groundwork for the rebirth and rise of China after five centuries of slumber. Here is Kristof describing an example of what is currently happening in Zimbabwe in the June 29 IHT (bold after headline is mine): If only Mugabe were white Patson Chipiro, a democracy activist, wasn't home when Robert Mugabe's thugs showed up looking for him. So they grabbed his wife, Dadirai, and tormented her by chopping off one of her hands and both of her feet. Finally, they threw her into a hut, locked the door and burned it to the ground. This is really hard to take. In Nick’s world, to chop off body parts to intimidate political opponents is to “ torment .” The headline is more accurate ...