InterOil in NYT

20 Jan 2007 in Papua New Guinea by Alex | 6 comments

Woah — Interoil has “made it to the New York Times”:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/business/yourmoney/21oil.html?_r=1&ref=yourmoney&oref=slogin. Any guess how long it takes the piece to mention cannibalism?

Think about it fer a sec…

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Yup — the first sentence of the piece, 17 words in.

  1. Ian’s avatar

    Ian on 20 Jan 2007 at 5:01 pm

    I think they showed tremendous restraint putting the mackerel in front of the cannibalism.

  2. mohawk’s avatar

    mohawk on 22 Jan 2007 at 11:53 am

    I love that they write the entire story without mentioning the 5 million + people that live in PNG and how resource extraction affects them but at the end we get:

    “This is a beautiful island, filled with amazing jungles and rainforest, spectacular animals and birds that are like something out of storybooks,”

    Amazing indeed.

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    mohawk on 22 Jan 2007 at 12:01 pm

    And AND the drawing at the top! Who at the NYT gave that the okay? Good lord.

  4. Alex’s avatar

    Alex on 22 Jan 2007 at 8:52 pm

    I think the cassowary looks kinda cute, actually.

  5. SEB’s avatar

    SEB on 23 Jan 2007 at 10:29 am

    The drawing is a spoof of this painting, called “The Dream,” by Henri Rousseau, who painted a lot of exotic fantasies in a naive style — sort of appropriate when you think about it.

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    mohawk on 24 Jan 2007 at 9:01 am

    The fact that it is a copy of Rousseau and, I think, not supposed to be a ‘spoof’ at all is my problem with it.