Getting the facts straight?

So today I hope to be done with the quantitative/empirical part of my analysis.

I am scrolling through loads and loads of newspaper/media articles published in Africa/Europe and the United States in the past 7 months and that in a way or another refer to IC.

I hope to be able to identity trends (or at least correlation) either by region, or by media type ( I did split it up by college/university newspapers, local newspapers, newswires, large-circulation newspapers and others).

I'm looking into which articles state the same information as IC about the conflict in Uganda (Joseph Kony = abducted children), which articles offer a more complex overview of the conflict, which ones only talk about IC's successes, awareness campains, movie screenings, etc.

My empirical observations will be posted soon, I hope... but in the meantime, I couldn't help it and needed share something that astounded me.


I was reading a feature about actress Olivia Wilde published in Irish Times on December 18 2010.

Ok so far, nothing to do with IC. Wait.

To illustrate how she thinks that her generation is cosmopolitan, educated on global issues and compassionate, she refers to IC:

"I am part of a generation that finds activism compelling and defining. Obama's success proves that people can change things. It's not just about voting any more. There are a great many philanthropic organisations that are youth led and run. That's something new. Think of Invisible Children , which is out there dealing with the war in northern Rwanda. For all the political gloom wonderful things are happening. And that sort of inspiring ingenuity is a product of this generation."

Northern Rwanda? Hum.

That's news to me... I though it had started in Northern Uganda and then spread to Congo and Sudan.

Note to newspaper editors : check your facts before you publish citations....