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26 Jan 2010 09:38

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Culture: The Haiti telethon on Friday drew an absolutely massive audience

  • 83
    million     people watched the telethon on one of many TV networks Friday night
  • $61
    million     poured in as a direct result of the George Clooney-led telethon source
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25 Jan 2010 21:25

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Offbeat: Try harder: This 7-year-old biker kid is a Haiti fundraising hero

This British kid’s raised $195,000 for Haiti by riding a bike. AND he’s got the ladies. It’s all downhill from here, little guy. source
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24 Jan 2010 00:12

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U.S., World: American should pat itself on the back for the Haiti telethon

  • $58 million in donations so far; holy freakin’ crap source
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23 Jan 2010 17:47

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World: People STILL getting pulled out alive after the Haiti earthquake

  • 11 days trapped in the quake rubble, but he still survived source
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22 Jan 2010 10:56

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World: Yikes: In Haiti right now, stealing rice a shootable offense

  • A truck stopped and we jumped on, and the driver gave us the rice as a gift. But the cops shot us.
  • An unidentified companion who was also shot for reportedly stealing rice • On the events that led police to kill Gentile Cherie yesterday. CNN caught the reported rice-stealing encounter and went to film the arrests, but got more than they bargained for when police reportedly shot the men in the back. Jesus. source
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21 Jan 2010 09:46

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World: Haiti’s planning massive tent villages for refugees in Port-au-Prince

  • 400k people will be moved out of Port-au-Prince into massive tent cities
  • 100k refugees will be transported in the first relocation wave
  • 10k the planned population of each individual tent city source
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20 Jan 2010 10:50

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World: Google Maps now provide an accurate view of Haiti’s devastation

  • Google’s updated their satellite images for Port-au-Prince, Haiti, post-earthquake, and some of the new views are devastating and terrible. The images are also being given to relief organizations, who may be able to use it to assist others. source
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20 Jan 2010 07:18

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World: Totally unfair: Haiti hit by super-strong pre-dawn aftershock

  • 6.1 aftershock this morning; no new damage reported source
  • Will it cause new deaths? It’s possible, but as many Haitians have been sleeping in the streets for fear of this very thing, not as likely. Fingers crossed.
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19 Jan 2010 20:27

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Politics: On media ethics in Haiti: Stop giving Anderson Cooper crap!

  • We need to make an important point here. (Note the graphic video.) Anderson Cooper saved a young boy’s life here. And this past weekend, Sanjay Gupta kept a hospital afloat. Other doctors and reporters are getting their hands dirty in helping out with one of the worst natural disasters in history. And yet, some media critics are giving them crap for daring to help. We need to clarify this to our readers here, as fellow journalists:
  • one Being a journalist does not instantly mean that you stop caring about other human beings.
  • two It’s easy to remain impartial when you’re not in a disaster zone like Cooper was.
  • three Life and death is not the point where one brings up an ethical fight. It’s unavoidable.
  • four CNN’s editors may be exploiting it, but we’d rather see reporters help out. source
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19 Jan 2010 20:02

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Culture: When we joined Twitter, nobody cared. When Bill Gates joined …

  • … it became a trending topic for no reason. The world’s richest dude, the Microsoft founder who spent 30 years being incredibly cutthroat before finally giving in to the philanthropy bug, joined Twitter today, in large part because he wanted to help Haiti. Among the 40 or so people he’s following: Ryan Seacrest, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Wired editor Chris Anderson, CNET Microsoft writer Ina Fried (who’s probably the only transsexual technology writer out there), and “High School Musical” star Ashley Tisdale. Quite the motley crew. source
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