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washingtonpost.com: Read Jon Stewart’s blistering monologue about race, terrorism and gun violence after Charleston church massacre

weil die youtube-kopien des (wirklich guten) eröffnungs-monologs von jon stewart’s letzter sendung regelmässig verschwinden und comedy central striktes geoblocking der sendungsmitschnitte durchzieht, hier, bei der washington post die abschrift des monologs von emily jahr:

Here’s a complete transcript of [Jon Stewart’s] searing monologue at the top of his show, which tackled race, terrorism and gun violence:
I honestly have nothing other than just sadness once again that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other and the nexus of a just gaping racial wound that will not heal, yet we pretend doesn’t exist. And I’m confident, though, that by acknowledging it, by staring into that and seeing it for what it is, we still won’t do jack s—. Yeah. That’s us. [weiterlesen …]

mokita.de: Der richtige Zeitpunkt, um mit dem Helfen aufzuhören.

ganz grossartige kleine geschichte von fabian neidhardt und wie er ein paar stunden mit robert verbrachte. /via

foreignaffairs.com: The Plunder of Africa

howard w. french erklärt, warum reiche länder (also wir) afrika nach wie vor ausbeuten und untervorteilen. eigentlich geht’s um tom burgis buch [-werbelink] the looting machine, aber howard w. french ist so freundlich uns burgis buch nachvollziehbar und differenziert zusammenzufassen. (vielleicht vertont bono mit seiner band das buch ja demnächst mal?)

Burgis, who writes about Africa for the Financial Times, brings the tools of an investigative reporter and the sensibility of a foreign correspondent to his story, narrating scenes of graft in the swamps of Nigeria’s oil-producing coastal delta region and in the lush mining country of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, while also sniffing out corruption in the lobbies of Hong Kong skyscrapers, where shell corporations engineer murky deals that earn huge sums of money for a host of shady international players. Although Burgis’ emphasis is ultimately on Africa’s exploitation by outsiders, he never loses sight of local culprits.

nytimes.com: Comedy Central in the Post-TV Era

johann weiner (sehr lang) über comedy central und vor allem den brillianten produzenten und talentscout kent alterman.

“Idiotsitter” is one of two CC Studios shows to ascend to full-series orders thus far, although ascension might eventually prove an outdated metaphor. Recently, Comedy Central eliminated the “CC Studios” mantle altogether. The thinking, these days, is that “it’s not about Comedy Central’s TV shows,” Doug Herzog said. “It’s about Comedy Central, which can exist in many different places.”

siehe auch „The Man Who Saved Comedy Central“ auf rollingstone.com, ebenfalls von johann weiner.