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I am noticing something about the reporting coming out of Haiti now that reminds me of Katrina. If you recall then, there was a certain lack of restraint when it came to displaying, some would say in a sensationalist manner, images of the dead and dying without any apparent concern for the dignity of the people living in that community or the feelings of their families.
The images coming out if Haiti are becoming even more grotesque and sensationalistic by the hour…even more over the top. I thought the image of a body being dumped into a garbage truck by a front loader was the worst but more was to come. Is this meant to "shock me out of my comfort zone" or to increase viewership and sales of print media ? Is this what it takes to make people give? Well these images are certainly not the motive for my efforts or those in my circle of friends and acquaintances at giving and assisting in any way that we can. What it is doing is to make me wonder what the media is up to at this point now and why these people at their most desperate and vulnerable are being subject to virtually uncensored images of their family members being displayed without any apparent restraint on the part of editors from first world publications.
Can anyone here recall any such display of the dead and dying from NY after 9/11? From Kosovo during the war? After any of the great earthquakes that have occurred in China in the last couple of decades ? After the tsunami? Even the <span style="font-style: italic">coffins</span> of American soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan are shielded from the gawking eyes of the public.
So what do the bulk of the victims in Katrina and Haiti have in common anyway ?
The images coming out if Haiti are becoming even more grotesque and sensationalistic by the hour…even more over the top. I thought the image of a body being dumped into a garbage truck by a front loader was the worst but more was to come. Is this meant to "shock me out of my comfort zone" or to increase viewership and sales of print media ? Is this what it takes to make people give? Well these images are certainly not the motive for my efforts or those in my circle of friends and acquaintances at giving and assisting in any way that we can. What it is doing is to make me wonder what the media is up to at this point now and why these people at their most desperate and vulnerable are being subject to virtually uncensored images of their family members being displayed without any apparent restraint on the part of editors from first world publications.
Can anyone here recall any such display of the dead and dying from NY after 9/11? From Kosovo during the war? After any of the great earthquakes that have occurred in China in the last couple of decades ? After the tsunami? Even the <span style="font-style: italic">coffins</span> of American soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan are shielded from the gawking eyes of the public.
So what do the bulk of the victims in Katrina and Haiti have in common anyway ?
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