It’s a totally legit news story for CNN or anyone else (we’ll get to NBC in a moment) to zoom in on this or that dramatic and hear-rending rescue of one or another victim trapped in rubble. But every one of those stories is also a stark and rather sickening reminder of how the daily pre-earthquake deaths, starvation and deprivation were considered SO non-newsworthy.
What if CNN made a decision to send the staff of 40 reporters and producers it currently has in Haiti to go to a different Third World country for intensive reporting every ten days as as part of three-year Special Project to help its audience learn about the Real World?
Marc Cooper, CNN In Haiti : Disaster Porn? (via soupsoup)
A much more eloquent take on the point I was trying to make last night.
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