‘After honeymooners crash in a helicopter, tourist choppers give us pause’
Chicago Tribune editorial board
Helicopters are often “vital tools,” and “there are many diligent, safety-conscious operators of helicopters that serve tourists,” says the Chicago Tribune editorial board. But recent crashes are “enough to give us pause about getting on one, especially if there is another choice of transportation to a popular destination.” It’s a “timely reminder there are lots of ways in these final weeks of summer of making it to a secluded vacation place: by boat, car, minibus, train or even a sturdier plane.”
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‘Humanitarianism is not collapsing. It is being traded and compromised.’
Amitabh Behar at Al Jazeera
As we “mark World Humanitarian Day, we must reflect on the state of humanitarianism,” says Amitabh Behar. Humanitarianism “has always been framed upon the collective assumption that there are lines that should never be crossed.” For a “generation, we had binding international agreements that treated the act of protecting a child in need of food or a medic treating the sick and wounded as a fundamental legal right,” but “today, the consensus and meaning behind these laws are gone.”
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Ren LaForme, Angela Fu, Amaris Castillo and Phoenix Chapital at the Poynter Institute
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