The News Review:
- What’s on Tonight
- Talent issue – the photographer: Alixandra Fazzina
- Honours: Media – Parkinson knighted
- EU calls for calm as tensions flare in Kenya polls
- Michael Parkinson to become a knight
What’s on Tonight
nytimes.com – Dec 29, 2007
(History) CHILD WARRIORS Today 300,000 children under 18 — and some as young as 7 — are fighting in three-quarters of the world’s conflicts, in countries like Ethiopia, Uganda, El Salvador, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Colombia. Some are drugged to keep them fighting; others simply know no other way of life. This two-hour special tells the story of Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier in the civil war in Sierra Leone and the author of ”A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. (HBO) MUSIC AND LYRICS (2007) Hugh Grant, below, plays a washed-up musician with some slick ’80s gyrations hired to compose a song for a teenage pop sensation; Drew Barrymore, left, is a plant waterer who gave up her writing career when her novelist boyfriend turned her into a character — a really unattractive one — in his latest book. Alone, they can’t get a second look.
Talent issue – the photographer: Alixandra Fazzina
The Independent – Independent – Dec 29, 2007
But she first turned seriously to photography in Bosnia, where she travelled as an official war artist, after studying fine art at Bristol. “I was bumming around Sarajevo and started to use a camera to record things. ” After Bosnia she travelled to Sierra Leone, where her enduring interest in Africa was born. “I try to find subjects that no one is covering,” she says. “People are in desperate situations but they’re not necessarily desperate. What matters most is that a photograph is honest if you can draw people in and make them look twice, then maybe they’ll have to address some of the issues. “She started off preferring black and white but now that she’s shooting more colour her work is becoming more “painterly”.
Honours: Media – Parkinson knighted
The Independent – Independent – Dec 29, 2007
Lynam, 65, who gave up full-time sports broadcasting in 2004 and spent a year presenting Channel 4′s Countdown, said: “This has been a splendid surprise and I feel truly privileged. “George Alagiah, 52, the BBC news presenter and an experienced foreign correspondent, receives an OBE. He has reported on the genocide in Rwanda, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and wars in Iraq, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan. There is also an OBE for Glenda Bailey, a Derby-born graduate of Kingston Polytechnic who has risen through the ranks of fashion journalism to edit the American magazine Harper’s Bazaar, considered second only to American Vogue as the bible of fashionistas. Bob Hutchinson, vice-chairman of the Defence Press and Broadcasting Committee, responsible for issuing “D Notices” asking the media not to publish matters damaging to national security, is awarded an OBE. He covered the Falklands War for the Press Association.
EU calls for calm as tensions flare in Kenya polls
Earthtimes.org – Dec 29, 2007
The EU, which has 150 observers in town for the elections, has called the polls in the East African nation “high priority”: Kenya’s relative stability makes it a beacon of hope in a troubled region. “We appeal to leaders to regard the elections as a friendly competition. It is not a war,” said Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, the head of the Commonwealth observer mission and the former president of Sierra Leone, which endured a brutal 11-year civil war. Copyright, respective author or news agency.
Michael Parkinson to become a knight
Telegraph.co.uk – Dec 29, 2007
Richard Griffiths, who also stars in the films as Uncle Vernon Dursley, is honoured with an OBE. The BBC journalist George Alagiah, 52, who presents the Six O’Clock News, is awarded an OBE for services to journalism. Alagiah, born in Sri Lanka, spent several years reporting from Africa, notably on the civil war and famine in Somalia, the genocide in Rwanda and civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Ian Anderson, singer in the veteran band Jethro Tull, receives an MBE and the cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, 94, is honoured with an OBE nearly 60 years after the release of what is regarded as his greatest work, the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets. Alternatively, you may have to open a web browser, such as Firefox or Internet Explorer, and copy the link over into the address bar.