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Thomas ELIOT: Passion for News that Stay News
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Michel ODIKA
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Thomas ELIOT: Passion for News that Stay News
Michel ODIKA
Before anything, TV is a medium which permits millions of people to witness
the same events at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Thanks to TV,
however, people can also...
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Thomas ELIOT: Passion for News that Stay News
Michel ODIKA
Before anything, TV is a medium which permits millions of people to witness
the same events at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Thanks to TV,
however, people can also view history being made before it is censored.
Consequently, it should also be noted that the idea to pay tribute to Thomas
ELIOT first came to me a few years ago, while staying in some motel in France.
Convinced that every lonely face tells a story, I was watching the news, starving
children, legs too thin and weak to support extremely emaciated bodies roughly, an horrific irony and abhorrent paradox that we have the most
performing technology to witness human tragedy and seem unable to prevent it.
Whether we will or not: Staying quiet is as political an act as speaking out
(Arundhati ROY).
What else about Thomas ELIOT, to whose fascinating work I am strongly
drawn as a literature lover? Well, his poetic legacy, a quite fitting tool for
analyzing thin
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