Communicating Arts - Main Web SiteI have repeated common remark so often as to have made it common all over again: the last ten percent of the work absorbs 90 percent of the effort. Such has not proved untrue at Nahr al-Bared.
Writing for The Daily Star, Michael Bluhm notes, ". . . under Nahr al-Bared sits a warren of shelters and tunnels, intended to provide safety from Israeli onslaughts," and bombing those bunkers and then blasting again through the debris felled by earlier bombs has slowed progress toward finishing off the militants [1].
Monday, Bluhm notes, was the three-month anniversary of the onset of hostilities at Nahr al-Bared.
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On a loosely related note, Lebanese photographer Randa Mirza has up on her web a brief on her project that seems to place tourists literally in war zones, specifically using Lebanon's more dismal settings:
Media pundits fed or created this need. In both cases, they achieved transforming war into an entertainment, they created a new, worldwide “society of spectacle”. “War is exotic”, says Laurent Gervereau, and media enhances this paradox. [2]
As one of the world's virtual pundit-tourists who must confess to being so, I have found access to this latest global wrinkle in content delivery as compelling as it has been remarkable: when and where do you turn off the news, look away, refuse to look further?
I am certain that I am not personally "pulling" content through any foreign source--i.e., feeding the market for certain news; I am equally certain that a global communications tool, our Internet, and a lingua franca or two, including English, make way for conversations between once distant minds, and there comes with that access, interest, and inclusion of local events that have global resonance.
2. Mirza, Randa. "One Media, Tourism, and War Photography."
Correspondence and Permissions: James S. Oppenheim
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