El Salvador: Take Two
Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo
Photo: shugyou
After publishing the public shame-on-you, National Geographic article last week, I received an e-mail from Kyle Smith over at the fantastic travel films site, TripFilms. Kyle agreed that American media’s tendency to prey on fear is disgusting enough, but their relative obliviousness to the damage they cause is particularly egregious.
Kyle mentioned that TripFilms has two short videos that show off the other side of El Salvador.
As I watched these videos, I was reminded that as important as it is for countries to examine their own and one another’s social problems critically, it’s also important to acknowledge and document the details of daily life that make less compelling and sensational news bites.
I hope you’ll check out the TripFilms videos. And if you’re heading to El Salvador, take your video camera and submit your own video to TripFilms–they could use a few more El Salvador films for their library!
*To learn more about current events in El Salvador, check out my article on Matador Pulse about El Salvador’s recent presidential election.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Thanks for posting the link. Let’s face it, if it was that dangerous Intercontinental wouldn’t be there, would they?
I completely agree with what you are saying here and in your previous post on El Savador. It’s not just the American media who are guilty. Here in Europe many countries are quite misrepresented as well (some more than others, depending which country you are in).