Adam B. Ellick, Executive Director Opinion Video, New York Times:
A Moral Compass
What I am about to write will probably get the usual Go Away response. And that is fine. I need to share this anyway. In my own work, Go Pro has helped me enormously. This is hardly an ad. I loathe the company. But the product is small, and it takes good video. I have interviewed prisoners. That is all I can say. It’s not easy getting in. Doing this is usually illegal. Illegal is code for bribery. In one, all you saw was underneath a table. My fault for not reading the room correctly. Sporting events have tons of Go Pros. They are not novel. They come and go back and forth between borders without a whisper. Black tape hides the red light. Then, remove the tape. The tape is a red flag. On another note, I work with a foundation in NYC whose initiative to tell the stories of boys who are raped in war. I have spent a decade studying this stuff. The media cannot talk about it because it’s so hard to verify. But you can say: There are stories of. Those stories do not usually leave the village or the family (who are made to watch). You also have to have time to dig around and not just for bodies. But for the people who will tell the story of what they saw. Real Stories Gallery Foundation. I freelance. I was their Creative Director for ten years. There’s another aspect this that is never, ever written about is called HIV. What I hear is that Russian soldiers suffer with it immensely as do Ukrainians. The DRC was this bad, and those stories will never be told. This is now war with Russia. HIVPHOBIA predominates the world. Will such violated boys become sick in ten years. Yes. What has happened to the supply chain of antiretrovirals. Some of these stories will be told. What has been articulated today is a warm wave lapping against an iceberg. HIV demands a response with protein. There is little of that. Bags of flour are ephemeral.
