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Upcoming Events
May 4-11
The Great Paris Chocolate Tour
May 12, 5:30 p.m.
Dispatches launch
Overseas Press Club
New York
May 18 - 23
The Great Paris Chocolate Tour II
June 15 - 23
Tufts Institute for Global Leadership Workshop
Seam Reap, Cambodia
February 15 - April 15
University of Arizona
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Mort Rosenblum, journalist, author and educator, has assigned himself the immodest
mission of saving the world. Having covered assorted mayhem in 200 present and former
countries over four decades, he suspects this may be a bit too ambitious for an aging
Quixote who knocks off Decembers to harvest his olives. But he sees plenty
of like-minded people already at work on the most urgent goals: to rescue "the
media"; to reclaim democracy; to halt
terracide; to fight poverty and plagues; to
curb corporate colonialism; and to set a great
but misguided nation back on course.
After 40 years in the wilderness as a foreign correspondent, Rosenblum's cri de coeur is
"ESCAPING PLATO'S CAVE: How America's Blindness to the Rest of the World
Threatens Our Survival", published in
October by St. Martin's Press.
He notes: "For all the words and images we call 'media,' precious few trained eyes see distant reality up close, and these grow fewer by the year. When reporters do warn us of a crisis, we pay scant attention.
We react to effect and ignore the causes. And then, overwhelmed, we cite that old saw as a path
of least resistance: You can't worry about what you can't change. We must turn this around:
You can't change what you don't worry about."
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