No News is Bad News

June 13, 2003

Judging by recent newspaper accounts, it would seem that the war in Congo has taken a turn for the worse. But those familiar with the conflict say the latest massacre there was simply one of many over the last four years. New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch, who wrote a book about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, talks to Brooke about the American media's sporadic coverage of Africa.


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