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OSLO,
\n Oct. 7 – The International Atomic Energy Agency and its chief Mohamed
\n ElBaradei today won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005
\n for their work in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. Holger Keifel\/Polaris,
\n for NYT<\/p>\n
Mohamed ElBaradei, 63, has practiced quiet diplomacy to dissuade nations
\n from using nuclear technology for arms.<\/p>\n
"The prize recognizes the role of multilateralism in resolving all
\n of the challenges we are facing today," Mr. ElBaradei told a televised
\n press conference at the agency’s headquarters in Vienna. "The prize
\n will strengthen my resolve and that of my colleagues to continue to speak
\n truth
\n to power."<\/p>\n
We were talking about the Nobel Prizes yesterday with In Japan, apparently, the newspapers go to work When that happens, the Japanese papers really go Unfortunately, we related, in the United States When asked why that is, we were nonplussed. We had However, we concluded, you can bet your bippy that By awarding the Peace Prize to the International As the visible manifestation of the international Only our firm belief in the inevitability from the OSLO, Oct. 7 – The International Atomic Energy Agency and its chief Mohamed ElBaradei today won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2005 for their work in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. Holger Keifel\/Polaris, for NYT Mohamed ElBaradei, 63, has … Continue reading
\n the students in our Media News course. One of our students, who has
\n worked for many years for a major Tokyo newspaper, expressed surprise
\n that the initial rounds of Nobel Prizes<\/a>, announced last week, were not
\n front page news in the Boston
\n Globe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n on the Nobels even before the nominations are announced, speculating
\n on
\n the chances of likely candidates for nomination! When the nominations
\n are officially announced, they prepare in-depth profiles and background
\n pieces on each of the nominees, whom they invariably interview. The life
\n of a Nobel nominee must be a non-stop whirlwind of interviews with foreign
\n journalists from the announcement of the nominations to the announcement
\n of the actual prizes.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n to town, with front page, over the fold splash headlines, and detailed
\n analyses
\n of the accomplishments, history, and personality of the winners. If
\n a favored son of the Rising Sun wins, as happens with increasing frequency
\n these days, they merit a separate section.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n the only selections that get that kind of scrutiny are Major League
\n Baseball’s
\n Most Valuable Player, and Supreme Court Justices. In this country,
\n the Nobel Prizes<\/a> are placed on the
\n same level of importance and newsworthiness as the Pulitzers, Oscars and Miss
\n Universe<\/a> – annual events of intense interest to a small clique of
\n specialists and fanatics, and only passing interest to the general public.
\n Page three material, at best, unless a local figure is involved.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n been aware for a while that the Nobel’s are a much bigger deal around
\n the
\n world than they are in the US. All we could come up with is that there
\n have been so many American winners that people are jaded, that isolationist
\n Americans aren’t all that interested in what people in foreign countries
\n are up to in general, and that the Nobels, Alfred Nobel, Stockholm, Sweden
\n and even the word "Peace" are vaguely tinted with a creepy veneer of
\n socialism and Old World weirdness.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n when the Grand Champion Nobel Peace Laureate is announced, it will
\n be front
\n page news in the US. We were right.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Atomic Energy Commission, the Nobel Committee are sending a message.
\n The message
\n is that they are scared shitless that the nuclear cat is out of the bag,
\n or about to be, and that dozens of independent but interconnected projects
\n around the globe represent a bunch of belligerent and bedraggled bums
\n banging on the door of the heretofore ultra-exclusive nuclear club.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n arms industry, giving out a prize named after the inventor of dynamite,
\n it
\n is easy to see why the Nobel Committee is against nuclear proliferation. It’s
\n hard to sell tanks and machine guns when every Tom, Dick and Hassan has
\n a pocket nuke.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n of Nuclear War<\/a> and the hope that it A) transpires as far away from
\n where we are as possible, and B) inspires a spontaneous worldwide
\n popular uprising forcing power-mad psychotic politicians to get rid
\n of the damn things once and for all keeps us from losing all hope.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"