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CBC Radio: Dispatches

Dispatches host Rick MacInnes-Rae knows what it is like to be an eyewitness to history. Go beyond the headlines with correspondents on assignment all over the globe. In repeats over the summer.

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August 17, 2008 - Best of Dispatches -- New Haven, Conn, Capetown, South Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Date: 08/17/2008
Length: 00:54:01

You say torture - I say abuse. You call it escalation, I call it a surge. We parse White House euphemisms with a language lord who decries them as "floating metaphors, with a low yield of fact." In South Africa is it smut and gore or a public service? Tabloids specialize in grim and ghastly. And it's making mainstream journalists uneasy. As Ethiopia shudders under poverty and oppression, Canada's accused of bean-counter development. A feature documentary from the Horn of Africa.

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