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Dr. Matt J. Duffy is an academic media scholar. An assistant professor of communication, Duffy teaches journalism, ethics and media law at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. His academic work has been published in the Journal of Middle East Media, the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, and the Newspaper Research Journal. Duffy is writing the book "Media Laws of the UAE" for the Encyclopedia of Media Laws series. He received a Ph.D. in Public Communication from Georgia State University in the United States where he studied the use of unnamed sources in journalism. Duffy is an active member of the Arab-United States Association of Communication Educators, an organization that aims to improve journalism in the Middle East. He writes regularly for the Dubai newspaper Gulf News. Follow him on Twitter.

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What do we do with the UN?

posted on February 15, 2005 at 2:22 pm

Mark Steyn indicts the U.N. and the media’s reaction to its child rape scandal. Remember this: “If you’re going to rape prepubescent girls, make sure you’re wearing a blue helmet.”

Here’s the problem.

We’d all love for the U.N. to be a great institution. In an ideal work, the United Nations would be a true guardian of peace and happiness.

However, we live in a world where half the members of the U.N. are countries run by dictators who are niether elected nor accountable.

The result: The U.N. looks like a democracy. Representatives sure do a lot of voting at the U.N. But it’s not. Let’s quit pretending the U.N. holds some high moral ground. And let’s quit pretending that troops wearing blue helmets aren’t raping defenseless kids.

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