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Isaacs wasn’t aware of any other reporters present, and no stories showed up in the dailies. There was simply Isaacs’s excellent report, posted online at PioneerLocal.com. I write more than enough about the lamentable downsizing at Pioneer Press and throughout the desperate Sun-Times Media Group. All the more reason to point out the superior work Pioneer Press is still capable of doing.
Panelists noted with disturbing frankness the challenges of reporting genocide so the public knows and cares about atrocities occurring in other parts of the world.
McBride disagreed with Joe Lauria, UN correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, on the willingness of the public to read about distant atrocities. “It’s a very dramatic story, genocide,” said Lauria. “I think you can sell newspapers if it’s done correctly.” But Isaacs wrote that McBride didn’t think so, telling the audience that “Americans tend to be isolationists and even self-centered.”
