nationalism

actual 'journalism' on Japanese Whaling

musings on 24 November 2008

It is rare that I find a piece in a newspaper written by a journalist that is well researched and illustrates a sound and critical analysis of the issue being addressed. Opinion pieces and guest editorials (usually by academics, some activists and some pundits—as they are called in North America) often provide this. In recent days i found such a piece by Peter Hartcher, the 'political editor' for Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, titled Japan's fading appetite for a fight.

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