One of the challenges, as all this financial crisis business continues, is to find different ways to tell this story, or at least to explore different aspects of it. I'm interested, for example, on how this is really affecting people. We hear a lot of doomsday stuff coming out of the TV and in our newspaper, but is your average Joe feeling this? I live in central Europe, so my thoughts are turning these days to the Czech farmer, or the Hungarian shop owner, and wondering how they feel the pinch, if they do at all. My thinking is as soon as the coverage can really paint a picture of a definitive, visual, everyday impact, then people can move out of the abstract with all of this and consider it in much more simple terms.
That's my thinking, at least. I'm going to look into that farmer...
Capping off a busy week, I write today in the Christian Science Monitor on the philosophical differences between Europe and the US underpinning reactions and responses to the financial crisis.
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