Why one Guatemalan newspaper now refuses to cover the giant sinkhole

[Judi Lynn]

Why one Guatemalan newspaper now refuses to cover the giant sinkhole
The Tampa sinkhole that appeared Sunday is reminiscent of last month's Guatemala sinkhole. But despite the seemingly insatiable appetite for the story, The Guatemala Times newspaper is now refusing to cover the topic.
By Stephen Kurczy, Staff writer / July 13, 2010

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A giant sinkhole covers a street intersection in downtown Guatemala City, June 2.
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The Tampa sinkhole that swallowed a car Sunday is not as deep, wide, or perfectly cylindrical as the Guatemala sinkhole that emerged in late May to rabid news coverage.

Six weeks on, the Guatemala sinkhole remains unchanged – it’s still 66-feet wide and 100-feet deep – as the municipality decides what to do with it, says Barbara Schieber, editor-in-chief of the English-language Guatemala Times.

Despite the US public's voracious appetite for the coverage of the sinkhole, which appeared on May 29, the Guatemala Times refuses to cover it anymore.

“Guatemala has so many problems. The sinkhole is really not a problem, except in the little neighborhood where it happened,” says Ms. Schieber, who was born in Guatemala to a Guatemalan father and a German mother.

In a June 3 op-ed on the Guatemala Times website, Schieber wrote that the top story about Guatemala was not the volcanic eruption of Pacaya or tropical Storm Agatha, which killed more than 120 people in Guatemala. Rather, "the most important discussion on the news is if the sinkhole is a Photoshop picture or if it was made by UFO's."

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WHY would this NOT represent a problem of nightmarish proportions? Holy smoke!