I guess the media just said fuck Haiti

[bigdarryl]

There trying to say this earth quake in Chile is worst than Haiti but the fact is Haiti's people are way worst off there living in tent city with mud slides rain human waste and you see nothing now on it. Chile's quake may have been bigger than Haiti but the people in Chile are very lucky

[JI7]

1. the Chile quake just happened today

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Haiti dropped out of the 7-day news cycle after 7 days.

[bigdarryl]

5. Yeap exactly what Joe Madison predicted last week

[spiritual_gunfighter]

23. CNN is still covering it every night n/t

[Kutjara]

3. Actually, most of the news seems to be saying "fuck Chile" too.

99% of the coverage seems to have involved a webcam pointed at a placid Hawaiian beach, while a "reporter" fantasizes about the possible catastrophe to come, sounding like he/she can't wait for the devastation to begin. Hell, our local news had cameras riveted on the beach at Long Beach, where even less was happening. I guess a tragedy isn't really a tragedy unless it's All About Us.

But, yeah, the Chileans will trump the Haitians as the the lone "foreign" story in each news cycle for a while. At least until Tiger Woods decideds to apologize to someone else.

[Cha]

7. Or palin has another

assine observation.

[TankLV]

21. I noticed that too.

Just like the last one in Hawaii - the local TV had a camera on the beach to record a ONE INCH change in the waves!!!

But after the 1960 disaster - and the fact that all this Tsunami prediction is in it's infancy - can you blame us/them for paying attention rather than seeing it as "hoping for a disaster"?

After all - look what happened WHEN WE DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION!

[gateley]

4. They were just talking about the magnitude, bigdarryl -- they've also

noted that the devastation is no where near what it was (and continues to be) in Haiti.

[bigdarryl]

8. but you see no news reporters on TV from Haiti like the first week

[gateley]

17. Oh -- I don't dispute that. They didn't even cover Katrina after the first week or

two. Once things "settled down" :eyes: It's true, the attention span of the public (and I gotta admit I'm guilty) is so short. That's why I have the Haiti flag as my avatar and the picture of the fallen solders in my tag line -- so I don't just forget.

I misunderstood your post - I thought they were saying this was bigger, i.e. more important than Haiti. I'm very good at reading into things. :7

[Jennicut]

6. It is a bigger Earthquake but I doubt the death toll will even be a smidgen of what it was in Haiti

Chile had way better building codes and is not a poor country.

[davidpdx]

15. It does look like from the initial pictures that Haiti was flattened

Where Chile had buildings collapse and near collapse, it wasn't near as bad.

[timeforpeace]

9. Way, way way bigger than Haiti. Which makes the disparate death totals seem strange.

[boppers]

11. Not only different construction but different epicenter, living conditions,

medical facilities, road conditions, food distribution systems, natural shelters, etc.

Chile's death toll is currently estimated in the hundreds, as compared to Haiti's several hundred thousand.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Different type of land too, I imagine. Isn't Haiti very sandy?

[imnKOgnito]

13. Nothing strange about it at all.

Chile is much more prepared for an earthquake of an 8.8 magnitude than Haiti is for a 7.0. And that's got everything to do with Those crazy socialist ideas like government regulations and building codes. They probably even have the gall to make people pay taxes to cover the cost of such things, too.

[Jennicut]

18. Haiti experienced a more shallow quake besides having buildings that easily collapse.

[xchrom]

10. OPz like this are our version of Pat Robertsons

Insane pronouncements.

[Imajika]

12. Yeah, people are bored of the Haiti earthquake now...

That is so January 2010. We've moved on from that. It's almost March now. The media need new and more interesting disasters and human misery to cover.

Just imagine if they had actual video of that Orca chomping on that poor woman in Florida. Oh, that would be ALL you would see on TV. You can bet the networks are already working on a made for TV flick called something like "Terror at SeaWorld: The Killer Whale Rampage of Death".

[FrenchieCat]

16. Death Toll in Haiti was 300,000, while Chile will not even get close to close.....

so at the end of the day, the only quake numbers that matter
is the human death toll, which is the real tragedy.

But I could have sworn that Hawaii got the most time today......
as cameras waited to witness devastation for a sensational story,
but ended up being disappointed.

There were zero deaths in Hawaii due to a Tsunami as of right now,
I do believe.

[TankLV]

22. If you do not understand the difference, then I can't help you.

1) Haiti was an INSTANT disaster - WITHOUT WARNING. For those of you who are dense - NOBODY SAW IT COMING - unlike Hawaii...!!!
2) We can be thankful that Hawaii didn't suffer anything bad - BUT WE DID NOT KNOW THIS FOR CERTAIN BEFOREHAND!!!
3) Honolulu is a fucking MAJOR AMERICAN CITY - not a foresaken one in some forgotton corrupt backwater.
4) The Tsunami was HAPPENING "NOW" - not a "past" event that just happened.
5) Hawaii and Chile both have modern telecommunication infrastructure - so it's easy to broadcast from there - unlike the barely functioning backwater of Haiti.

6) IT JUST HAPPENED! - AND IS CURRENT BREAKING NEWS!!! What part of that don't you understand? Guess we should all ignore this?

and, because you aparently haven't noticed - THE NEWS MEDIA ARE STILL COVERING HAITI!!! It's more "analysis" and I wouldn't expect wall to wall 24/7 coverage of Haiti by now.

[LatteLibertine]

19. Haiti vs Chile also

= a massive difference in building codes. Traditionally they've had a much more corrupt government who haven't tried to truly help their people. Mostly they stole money intended to help them.

I'm actually surprised Haiti coverage is still being dealt with in some cases because the media usually moves on. It happened with Katrina, Iran, etc etc. Chile will start to be ignored in a few more days. It's sad that coverage of large scale tragedies in the world often don't run as long as the coverage of Michael Jackson's death.

Much of the "news" today is "infotainment". They're going to cover an issue as long as they believe it will return good ratings. After that, it's over.

[phleshdef]

20. Its not luck. Chile is better off because of "big government regulation".

The Chilean regulations regarding construction kept their buildings in tact, which means there was less destruction, which means lives were saved. I would love the media be made to face that.

[USfirst1]

26. Big Government

How's that big government in Chile working to stop the looting? I'm sick of hearing about foreign countries when we have problems here. Too bad Senator Bunning wasn't in one of those Haiti buildings!

[4lbs]

24. Somehow, I don't see hundreds of celebrities getting a benefit concert together for Chile. (n/t)

.

[themaguffin]

25. that's a VERY premature statement.