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Nicholas D. Kristof

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The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


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The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


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The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


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The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


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There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


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There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


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There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


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There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


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We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


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While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.


— Nicholas D. Kristof


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" Kristof praised the dismissal of the suit commenting that he was "really pleased that the judge recognized the importance of this kind of reporting" and that it was "terrific to have a judgment that protects journalism at a time when the press has had a fair number of rulings against it". Judge Hilton wrote that Kristof "made efforts to avoid implicating his guilt" and that "Mr. After covering the protests which resulted in some 500 deaths Kristof and WuDunn were shocked to learn that roughly 39000 Chinese girls died each year because they were not given the same access to food and medical care as boys.

Although Kristof has sometimes been criticized for highlighting human rights abuses in Africa Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has described Kristof as an "honorary African" for shining a spotlight on neglected conflicts. Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27 1959) is an American journalist author op-ed columnist and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001 and The Washington Post says that he "rewrote opinion journalism" with his emphasis on human rights abuses and social injustices such as human trafficking and the Darfur conflict.

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