The vuvuzela brotherhood

The vuvuzela, or horn blown by fans at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, is so loud that some ear specialists are calling for it to be banned. The news portal Mediapart defends the South African instrument from its many media critics: "So far we've seen a tie from the host in the first game, a nervous French team, a butterfingered British goalkeeper and a German blitzkrieg against Australia. In short the 2010 World Cup has been anything but exciting. Then my friend Pierre ... suddenly said: 'Don't you hear that droning sound?' ... The vuvuzela affair has overshadowed the murderous oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico and the collapse of the French social security system, so it's high time that Mediapart took a stand on the issue. Our editorial standpoint is simple: the whole world is against vuvuzelas, we are for them. ... Just as our website is the location where opposing viewpoints meet, so too the football stadium should be the place where differences of all kinds rub shoulders in a spirit of brotherhood."

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