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Coverage Of Tsunami The Real Disaster (as newsworthy as airport delays and lost baggage)
NY Post ^ | December 28, 2004 | Linda Stasi

Posted on 12/28/2004 8:05:55 AM PST by dead

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Stasi is the Post’s liberal reviewer (as is obvious, from the irrelevant cheap shots at Limbaugh), but she has a real point. The coverage on Fox has been atrocious as well. I actually heard one reporter ask an expert, “How come they don’t know how many are dead?” in reference to the authorities in Thailand. It’s like they simply cannot grasp the gravity of this situation.

They’re ranking it slightly ahead of Paris Hilton and slightly behind Scott Peterson in importance.

1 posted on 12/28/2004 8:05:56 AM PST by dead
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To: dead

I disagree. I think coverage has been good on FNC. You can't surf on cable without seeing stories about it. The airport stuff looks like filler.


2 posted on 12/28/2004 8:08:58 AM PST by GOP_Proud (Those who proclaim tolerance, have the least for my views.)
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To: dead
"They’re ranking it slightly ahead of Paris Hilton and slightly behind Scott Peterson in importance."

I'm sure it falls in there someplace.

BTW ... Have I told you about my grandchild being an honor student?



See what I mean?

3 posted on 12/28/2004 8:10:59 AM PST by G.Mason ("It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own." – M. Forbes)
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To: dead

I think the tsunami story is well reported, I just think the story of Michael Jackson and Scott Petersen is over reported.


4 posted on 12/28/2004 8:11:41 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: dead

(sarcasm ON)

"Hey, it didn't happen in America at rush hour so who cares? In more important news there's a stall in the number four lane on the I-5 southbound and, next, we'll have Mary covering the .1 inch of rainfall we had last night in the STORM WATCH!!! segment. Back to you, Tom, at the petting zoo where the pandas just arrived!"

(sarcasm OFF)

American TV news is pitiful. Which is why I'm on FR for my morning news.


5 posted on 12/28/2004 8:11:47 AM PST by PeterFinn (Liberals are a greater threat to the USA than are Islamofascists.)
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To: dead

I don't buy into the argument that because something bad has happened that we are not allowed to talk about anything else. What more is there to see? I saw the news, and found out about what happened. For the next two days was there any actual news? No. Just endless "experts" stating the obvious. Why not focus on the airport stuff where there is news to report that affects everyone who might be travelling?


6 posted on 12/28/2004 8:11:58 AM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: dead
So far the count is nearly 50,000 dead.
India: 7400
Indonesia 21,000
Sri Lanka 18,000
Thailand 2000
Rest +/- 200

These counts are rising all the time.
The worst disaster of our time.
7 posted on 12/28/2004 8:12:49 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: dead
They’re ranking it slightly ahead of Paris Hilton

Coverage will pick up when they start getting cameras there. Already today I've seen more coverage than I have over the past two days. TV news is driven by images; if they don't have images of the disaster or the devastation it might as well not have happened.

8 posted on 12/28/2004 8:13:03 AM PST by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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To: G.Mason

this woman obviously never watches fox News. Montages of the damage were the lead-in and lead-out to every commercial break for the 2 hours I had the channel on yesterday. Of course, from prior descriptions of this lady from other posters, her not watching foxnews doesnt surprise me.


9 posted on 12/28/2004 8:13:31 AM PST by timtoews5292004
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To: PeterFinn; Stingray51
"Hey, it didn't happen in America at rush hour so who cares? In more important news there's a stall in the number four lane on the I-5 southbound and, next, we'll have Mary covering the .1 inch of rainfall we had last night in the STORM WATCH!!! segment. Back to you, Tom, at the petting zoo where the pandas just arrived!"

What is it that you want? Do you measure how much America cares by how much time we spend in front of the TV not learning anything new about the disaster? I watched less TV news for the past few days because all they reported on was the disaster. I know all about it, what is the use in subjecting myself to endless amounts of people stating and restating that the Tsunami happened and a lot of people died?

10 posted on 12/28/2004 8:14:11 AM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Bon mots
The worst disaster of our time.

I beleive in the last 20 years there have been worse events. Flooding in Bangledash, and a few earthquakes/mud slides.

11 posted on 12/28/2004 8:15:27 AM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Bon mots

Sad to say, but there have been worse, cyclones in Bangladesh have killed a half a million. India and Bangladesh regularly have these kinds of calamities, but you rarely hear about them. The difference is, in this case, many Western tourists were among the victims and that is the reason it is getting the kind of coverage it is. Sad to say it, but it's true.


12 posted on 12/28/2004 8:15:47 AM PST by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: dead

It won't be long before the 'Tsunami' video game comes out. We are nearly as desensitized to suffering as were the Roman citizens who were entertained by death and violence in the Colosseum. It's interesting that this attitude seems to have evolved in tandem with 'nonjudgmentalism' and 'tolerance'. Coincidence?


13 posted on 12/28/2004 8:16:13 AM PST by Spok
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To: Rodney King
Looks like the toll is over 50,000 according to this Asian resource.
14 posted on 12/28/2004 8:16:42 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: GOP_Proud

I agree. Fox has been great. They have finally got some reporters on the ground. But, time & location & situation are limiters. And the US media is not going to show the dead lined up on the beaches, etc.


15 posted on 12/28/2004 8:18:09 AM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Bon mots

I think a lot of people are just overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. It's almost unbelievable, its biblical in its proportions.

50,000 would be almost 3x the size of the town I live in. And the toll is only going to keep going up and up.

Jennifer Griffin on FNC was coughing and choking in her segment this a.m. due to the stench of rotting bodies.

I'm speechless when I see the pics and video.


16 posted on 12/28/2004 8:18:14 AM PST by eyespysomething (And a happy new year!)
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This is a total cheap shot at everybody, except the governments involved, the real culprits.

The sites of the disarters are in total chaos. In order to have news reports there must be both some means of communication, and transportation.

Neither is present. How is news supposed to be gathered and disseminated? Ouija Board? Chicken entrails?

What a profoundly trite and useless article!

17 posted on 12/28/2004 8:19:43 AM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: Rodney King

I think if you check media reports from China floods of the 1930s and 1940s...there various occassions that 100k people died. Nobody activately talked about it...but most foreigners in the country during this period readily agreed on extremely high numbers.


18 posted on 12/28/2004 8:19:48 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Rodney King

I don't think we have seen the beginning of this. When everyone is saying this will be the biggest aid operation in history; there is more to this than we are seeing, yet.


19 posted on 12/28/2004 8:19:55 AM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: GOP_Proud
I disagree. I think coverage has been good on FNC. You can't surf on cable without seeing stories about it. The airport stuff looks like filler.

Right, getting news from a disaster area in the third world is a long time thing. They are giving us all the news they can. One thing I don't see much value in is the constant harping about how many lives could have been saved if a warning system had been in place (and if people would have responded to it). Talk about Monday morning quarterbacking.

20 posted on 12/28/2004 8:21:08 AM PST by KC_for_Freedom (Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
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