They slipped by, did they not?

Dutch authorities identified about 30 war crimes suspects, a third of them Syrians, among the 59,000 people who applied for asylum last year, the immigration minister said on Monday.

Among them ten Syrians, who said

the Syrians could not be sent home because international treaties prohibit forced repatriation to a country where there is ongoing conflict….

Stuck with them.

Source: Dutch find ten Syrian war crime suspects among Muslim migrants

Being inveterate laudatores temporis acti as they are, literally “praisers of times past,” or longing for the good old days.

You have to wonder: Are daily newspaper people ever struck by the fact that a movie about what they do is so much more popular than they are?

Spotlight, Tom McCarthy’s movie about The Boston Globe’s 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series on child molestation among Catholic clergy, was two things. It was a really great movie, and it was a delicious opportunity for self-back-patting by old ink-stained wretches.

Like myself.I watched. I patted. But since the Oscar ceremony, it has taken me a month or more to figure out why the discussion of the movie within my craft inevitably leaves me so sad and lonely. Oh, now I remember. It’s not the movie. It’s the craft.

Read the rest here: The Last People to Understand Spotlight Are Newspaper People | Dallas Observer