27 Feb 2009

Slumdogs and Slavery

By Jane Marie Smith and Gary Scott Smith

On the Monday morning following the Oscars, U.S. news Web sites splashed the announcement that the "little film that could," Slumdog Millionaire, had garnered the Best Picture of 2008 award. Buried on many of the same Web sites was the news that 48 children had been rescued from prostitution and several pimps had been arrested during the previous week in an FBI sting operation. The juxtaposition and implied importance of the two news stories was striking.

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