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Despite the battering the BBC has taken in the past year, constantly I am re-pleased with the breadth and depth of content on BBC News Online. And today I made a wonderful discovery. BBC News runs an occasional, if regular, feature in its In Pictures section: photo journals (see that tab) that focus on people's daily lives in various in-the-news contexts. The most recent one introduces a Darfur refugee. While this kind of journalism has all the possibilities of exploitation, appropriation, and oppression-pornography, I find that the BBC does a good job of actually incarnating issues, rather than merely inviting the gawk of privileged distance. Each one of the photo journals is worth seeing, but especially powerful were those introducing a Pakistani child labourer, a Tanzanian water seller, a Somali peace activist, and Cambodia's only all-female de-mining team.
HIGHLY COMMENDED.
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