Media (internet) Keiko

On Jan, 19, a trio of Australian journalists published a 4,600 words investigation challenging the trustworthiness of the child soldier memoir A Long Way Gone. Author Ishmael Beah suffered from the Sierra Leone’s civil war and the two years he spent as a cocaine-addicted teenage. He was once worked in military as a child soldier. Now, he travels the world as UNICEF representative heightening awareness for the condition of child soldiers.
In the passage, the author is Gabriel Sherman, one of a special correspondent for the New Republic. He constantly scorns the Australian journalists for challenging the credibility of the child soldier memoir A Long Way Gone. For example Gabriel says “If you believe the Australian, much of the memoir is bunk.” He ignores the Australian journalists when they claim that Beah exaggerated his story. Gabriel explains that Beah was an orphaned child soldier for more than two months, not the sweeping two years his memoir chronicles. He strongly states that Beah has documented his tragic story with infallible accuracy and describes views of violence and executions. Gabriel ludicrously laughs at these journalists for spending their time for three months to disgrace a really well-meaning person, who actually did suffer enormously. I can see his tone of anger by calling them “lowbrow” and “dismissiveness. “Since Gabriel strongly believes his point of view, he couldn’t accept to understand the ideas of three Australian reporters. His purpose of this message is to announce that the story of Ishmael Beah contains full of truthfulness. The theme is the conflict between the Australian journalists and Ishmael Beah

Sherman, Gabriel. "The Fog of Memoir." Slate 6 March 2008 7 Sep 2008 .<http://www.slate.com/id/2185928/pagenum/all/#page_start.>