From the website of Darren O’Donnell’s Mammalian Diving Reflex

Good Reads Loves Diplomatic Immunities & A Video Show for the People of Pakistan and India

Critic and blogger Timothy Comeau writes on his Good Reads site of the ridiculously narrow coverage of the “war on terror”, complaining, rightly, that even the CBC can’t seem to get more than the military’s side of the story:

“…the talk of putting a human face struck me as more this meaningless political rhetoric. Why are all these human faces those from Canada? Where do we ever see the human faces of the people we’re supposedly helping? How is their humanity ever brought to our attention? The fact that Darren could undermine the agenda of Canada’s national broadcaster with a 20 minute video perhaps suggests just how under-served we are by photo-ops, predictable rhetoric, focus on soldiers, and all the other regular bullshit.”

Check out and subscribe to Timothy’s Good Reads for lots of interesting reading, great links and compelling video on a whole range of subjects. Timothy’s the guy who got an arts grant to give a bunch of artists cable television so they could learn a little bit about what was happening in the world.