Reading Kristof and thinking about Wisconsin
As democracy protests spread across the Middle East, we as journalists struggle to convey the sights and sounds, the religion and politics. But there’s one central element that we can’t even begin to capture: the raw courage of men and women — some of them just teenagers — who risk torture, beatings and even death because they want freedoms that we take for granted.So begins Watching Protesters Risk It All, Nicholas Kristof's NY Times column, written in Bahrein.
It is powerful. He talks about individuals by name, although it is only first names:
(I’m withholding family names. Many people were willing for their full names to be published, but at a hospital I was shaken after I interviewed one young man who had spoken publicly about seeing