What is challenging about how the media can work to fight or even raise awareness of global women's issues is that it's not news. What the media is good at is covering what happened yesterday. But we're really bad at reporting what happens everyday. And most all the issues that negatively affect women in the world today happen everyday... so they're not really news, they're just life. This frustration, which I feel as a journalist myself, is why Sheryl and I decided to write Half the Sky.
(paraphrased quote from my memory) ... from Kristof during the panel discussion at CARE's International Women's Day event when asked about the role of media in speaking to women's issues in this modern era.
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