• FRYD@sh.itjust.works
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      The UN is struggling financially and this report makes the claim that there’s too many meetings and reports that no one reads. They said their most popular reports get 5000 downloads and 1 in 6 reports gets less than 1000 downloads.

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    The title is kind of genius.

    BTW I don’t see this as an actual issue. The important factor is which people read them. If it’s journalist who then report on them, and politicians who then act, then they are still effective. I don’t see why any average citizen should want to go and read them directly

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      Vijay Prashad:

      Such texts are boring not because of their content but because of how they are written. The style of these texts is almost intended to prevent the reader from getting anything out of them. It’s believed that just by publishing these manuals and reports they meet a certain standard of democracy. But what this kind of writing does is to turn people away from reading. Such writing is, therefore, antidemocratic.