Must we dismantle the U.N. in order to save it?

As promised on this very blog, U.N. Dispatch‘s Mark Leon Goldberg and Inner City Press‘s Matthew Lee went head-to-head on Bloggingheads.tv on Sunday over Matthew’s Foreign Policy piece last week on which U.N. offices he feels we could all do without. Check out their conversation on how the U.N. produces body-counts and whether the U.N.’s ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.

As promised on this very blog, U.N. Dispatch's Mark Leon Goldberg and Inner City Press's Matthew Lee went head-to-head on Bloggingheads.tv on Sunday over Matthew's Foreign Policy piece last week on which U.N. offices he feels we could all do without. Check out their conversation on how the U.N. produces body-counts and whether the U.N.'s in-house news service does more good or harm:

As promised on this very blog, U.N. Dispatch‘s Mark Leon Goldberg and Inner City Press‘s Matthew Lee went head-to-head on Bloggingheads.tv on Sunday over Matthew’s Foreign Policy piece last week on which U.N. offices he feels we could all do without. Check out their conversation on how the U.N. produces body-counts and whether the U.N.’s in-house news service does more good or harm:

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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