Thursday, June 11, 2009

Poets write the news in Israel.

Poets write the news in Israel. It was on an average Wednesday that a very serious Israeli newspaper conducted a very wild experiment. For one day, Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon sent most of his staff reporters home and sent 31 of Israel’s finest authors and poets to cover the day’s news. The idea behind the paper’s June 10 special edition was to honor Israel’s annual Hebrew Book Week, which opened the same day, by inviting Israeli authors to get away from their forthcoming novels and letting them bear witness to the events of the day. This wasn’t a Sabbath supplement, a chance to balance the news with extra color. This was a near complete replacement of the newspaper itself.
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This is very cool! I want news haikus :)

2 comments:

Guru Bob said...

Do you have a link for this?

Ysambart said...

That was taken from Crikey.com.au If youthrow me an email I can do the 'mail a friend the link' thing. My email is ysambart@gmail.com