THE MAN HAS earned two big pictures on The New York Times‘ front page … the lead-story position on the BBC‘s World Service, persistently … not to mention endless acres of tabloid coverage in print, on TV and online.
Such is the fate of the once-gloried Olympian Oscar Pistorius, the extraordinary ‘cross-over’ athlete both disabled and able-bodied, since killing his girl-friend Reeva Steenkamp.
The world’s media are having, and will continue to have, an extended field-day with this resonant story from South Africa that comprises so many disturbing layers. Continue reading “Story Repeated a Billion Times Worldwide” »