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12/28/2004 Entry: "Mitch Ratcliffe on Tsunamis and U.S. Media"
Mitch Ratcliffe looks at how U.S. media has been covering the earthquake and tsunamis, and compares them unfavorably with the BBC. "For several hours after the waves struck Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia and Bangladesh, the lead news on U.S. media was a combination of the inevitable end-of-the-year retrospective reports and Reggie White's sudden death at 43, certainly a tragic story, but by comparison to an event that would lead to the death of tens of thousands of people, pretty small stuff. Meanwhile, Canadian and British television was talking through what was known, sans pictures and relying on a few still images while describing the scope of the devastation in terms that made clear something of massive import had happened. It was serious coverage that commanded attention."
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Your are SO right !
It scares me that US is so concerned with herselves and forget EUrope. Even worse the triangle that contains 2 Billion people and to which the US is ´outsocurcing´most of its jobs !!!
Today theres over 70.000 dead !
And double that, thats missing !
The largest catastroph since WW2.
(except Bhopal / Union Carbide Catastroph ?)
But the US has contributed 30 Million US$ in Aid !
So, thank you !
Allan P3
Posted by Allan Petree, Sweden. @ 12/28/2004 04:58 PM PST