Arts and Life | ‘Of Caravan and the Dogs’: A Countdown to War from Inside the Newsroom
By Pippa Crawford
One hundred and thirty-eight days before his country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Dmitry Muratov of Novaya Gazeta was accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. In his speech, he quoted the proverb “The dogs bark but the caravan goes on,” usually understood to mean that the sound and fury of journalism have no real impact on the state. Muratov argued things were the other way round — that the “caravan" could not move at all if not for the barking of the “dogs.”
“We are the antidote to tyranny,” he declared.
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By Pippa Crawford
One hundred and thirty-eight days before his country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Dmitry Muratov of Novaya Gazeta was accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. In his speech, he quoted the proverb “The dogs bark but the caravan goes on,” usually understood to mean that the sound and fury of journalism have no real impact on the state. Muratov argued things were the other way round — that the “caravan" could not move at all if not for the barking of the “dogs.”
“We are the antidote to tyranny,” he declared.
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