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Disaster is exciting, and attracts those not personally involved.
Even starvation may get an audience.
But grinding misery, poverty, and lives which are inconvenienced and disrupted will never attract the public.
Surely pictures like this (better posted in this thread anyway then the previous one ) should be front page news around the world.
Crystal Beach before and after. And this area of total destruction goes on for miles and miles and miles...
The BBC for all it's pretensions is remarkably parochial.
It is also very bureaucratic, and has a party line on what it will show.
I prefer CNN, even though that also tends to superficiality.
Yes and I see that CNN International is starting to show before and after pics (but not getting to the worst yet). Auntie Beeb surely can't ignore the images of catastrophic destruction reaching its newsroom much longer. Maybe they have to wait for Anderson Cooper to break the news first.
The BBC only covers London in any detail.
Floods in the North of England were virtually outside the pale, and were briefly reported then dropped off the radar.
The only other good way to get on the Beeb is to provide an 'ethnic' angle, to have an exotic location that a team might fancy jetting off to to 'research', or preferably both.
That looks strangely similar to the photos of Banda Ache after the Dec 26th '05 tsunami
And Bush finally used the "disaster" word to reporters a few moments ago as he begins his tour.
Unfortunately all the local stations still streaming are still being transmitted with a high bitrate but the resolution and frames/sec is really degraded over what it was 48 hours ago so its very difficult to see clearly the helicopter shots. KHOU which was streaming in near broadcast quality seems to have stopped streaming completely. Hopefully just temporary technical problems.