CNN: Death Monger
So everyone has seen the news stories, everyone knows about the earthquake in Haiti. How is it that the news focuses on the American aspect of the disaster and fails to account for the situation? The top stories on CNN right now are the abandonment of the aid station and the treatment of dead bodies. The comments following these stories are unwarranted in my opinion. Aid stations abandoned for safety concerns; sounds about right to me. Who in their right mind would stay if there was a credible safety threat? I’m all for humanitarian efforts in Haiti (not really), but I wouldn’t risk my own neck to save them. Dead bodies in mass graves; sounds good again. The cities were destroyed, and these comments seem to suggest that each person should get a proper burial. How many of them would have received a proper burial if the earthquake had not taken place? Who is going to bury them? Where are the resources coming from? Whose land is going to be used? I think the Haitians had it right, mass graves and move on. For the record, it seems like most Americans don’t know this, Haiti is not America! Things weren’t that great down there to begin with and people think a disaster is going to fix that, within 72 hours? That is ridiculous. This is CNN using death and tragedy to gain ratings and shave another IQ point of the already diminishing intelligence in this country. New slogan for CNN: bringing you the news one body at time.
Haiti is lucky to get help at all. Not to speak negatively, but the only people that would have lost out if nobody helped would be Haiti’s people and the news. If it wasn’t some ridiculous headline I would wager most Americans wouldn’t even know what happened. I’ll wager that by the time the week is out we see at least two stories of aid works abducted or killed and then people will start screaming to bring them home. The whole situation is absurd, the quicker the news lets it go, the better.
Twitter users: shut the hell up. I am so sick of getting these texts and tweets calling for aid to Haiti. Twitter is only good for the news. There are “twits” (twitter users) out there posting every 10 mins, “Save Haiti. Save them now.” What good does that do? It makes the tens of millions of twits feel slightly better about themselves and does nothing for Haiti. I have a tweet for you, “#waystobeannoying : Pretend like your tweets help someone. Suddenly caring about a country you can’t point out on a map.” If this disaster has taught me anything it is that Americans are utterly useless and simply ignorant unless it has to do with reality TV.
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