Comments on: Cyclone Sidr http://asymptotia.com/2007/11/15/cyclone-sidr/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:13:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sidr : Test Blogani http://asymptotia.com/2007/11/15/cyclone-sidr/#comment-90459 Sidr : Test Blogani Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:13:51 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/11/15/cylcone-sidr/#comment-90459 [...] Cyclone Sidrcyclone sidr - nasa photo Over on the Intersection, Sheril Kirshenbaum and Chris Mooney are wondering why on earth there's been little or no US media coverage of Cyclone Sidr, the monster storm that is bearing down on Bangladesh. …asymptotia.com [...] [...] Cyclone Sidrcyclone sidr - nasa photo Over on the Intersection, Sheril Kirshenbaum and Chris Mooney are wondering why on earth there's been little or no US media coverage of Cyclone Sidr, the monster storm that is bearing down on Bangladesh. …asymptotia.com [...]

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/11/15/cyclone-sidr/#comment-90303 Clifford Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:54:23 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/11/15/cylcone-sidr/#comment-90303 Yeah... have a look at the comments on Sheril's latest post. For example <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2007/11/us_media_notices_cyclone_sdir.php#comment-640163" rel="nofollow">this one by jen_m</a>: <blockquote> I think the reason that US media outlets completely ignored this story was summed up nicely by the AP stringer: "Bangladesh, a South Asian nation crisscrossed by river deltas, [b]routinely suffers large-scale loss of life and property from cyclones and floods[/b]." (Emphasis mine.) That sentence has been changed in the current version of the story, and is no longer quite so callous, but it was picked up everywhere the story ran list night, including CNN. So if a million people evacuate because of fires in California, that's news because the evacuations don't happen every year. But even if millions of Bangladeshis die, that's not news, because it happens all the time. Disgusting. </blockquote> -cvj Yeah… have a look at the comments on Sheril’s latest post. For example this one by jen_m:

I think the reason that US media outlets completely ignored this story was summed up nicely by the AP stringer: “Bangladesh, a South Asian nation crisscrossed by river deltas, [b]routinely suffers large-scale loss of life and property from cyclones and floods[/b].” (Emphasis mine.) That sentence has been changed in the current version of the story, and is no longer quite so callous, but it was picked up everywhere the story ran list night, including CNN.

So if a million people evacuate because of fires in California, that’s news because the evacuations don’t happen every year. But even if millions of Bangladeshis die, that’s not news, because it happens all the time.

Disgusting.

-cvj

]]> By: Yvette http://asymptotia.com/2007/11/15/cyclone-sidr/#comment-90301 Yvette Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:42:50 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/11/15/cylcone-sidr/#comment-90301 The funny thing was the cyclone made the main page of fark.com earlier this afternoon and it immediately went from no mention to top mention on CNN. Then Barry Bonds' indictment came out, so it disappeared off the radar again. *sigh* The funny thing was the cyclone made the main page of fark.com earlier this afternoon and it immediately went from no mention to top mention on CNN. Then Barry Bonds’ indictment came out, so it disappeared off the radar again.

*sigh*

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