She Blogs from Uzbekistan
Via The Agonist, a link to the blog Uzbekistan Diary, "A year in the life of a North American Journalist working in Uzbekistan."
The most recent post is yesterday. It begins,
The most recent post is yesterday. It begins,
We are in the middle of a fight with the US Embassy. There are certain un-named factors in the US Embassy that want my organization to trumpet all the good things the US is doing here. And they want us to make our UZ journalists tell those stories on UZ TV.[Note: We incorrectly identified the blog's author as a "He"--so we have changed the title of this post. Thanks to Sean-Paul for letting us know.]This presents a conflict of interest for me.
Sure, as a private US citizen, I would like the world to know about the good things my country does. But as a director of a press organization, I do not see it as my job to do PR for the United States, even though my salary comes from US taxpayer money. My job -- my mandate -- is to promote a free and independent press. It is not to promote and create an UZ press that tells the stories the US government wants them to tell.
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