InterOil in NYT
by Alex
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.
I think they showed tremendous restraint putting the mackerel in front of the cannibalism.
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,â€
Amazing indeed.
And AND the drawing at the top! Who at the NYT gave that the okay? Good lord.
I think the cassowary looks kinda cute, actually.
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.
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.