Tsunami Coverage
I don't have time to follow the news as closely as usual (and my cable box is broken), but my sense is that in the immediate aftermath of the disaster in Asia, the media was rather apathetic. While the tragedy was hardly ignored, it wasn't covered nearly as closely as it should have been. Now that a death toll in the tens of thousands has been confirmed (with more than a million losing their homes), media interest has picked up.
The media apathy likely stems from two sources. First, there wasn't much dramatic video footage. Second, and more disturbingly, the U.S. especially is more concerned about relatively trivial matters here than global disasters.
posted on 12/28/2004
