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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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17 Jan 2010 11:05

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Culture, World: Yele backlash: Wyclef’s taking the heat for his Haiti charity

  • Wyclef tries really hard to defend his charity here, but before you believe every word you read here, we want to note that while the Haitian pop star is definitely sincere, there has been a lot of waste in his organization in the past, as Gawker notes. source
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16 Jan 2010 16:49

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World: Sanjay Gupta officially more helpful than the United Nations

  • What is striking to me as a physician is that patients who just had surgery, patients who are critically ill are essentially being left here, nobody to care for them.
  • Dr. Sanjay Gupta • Regarding a situation where he ended up helping a bunch of earthquake victims out of security concerns after the UN-led group that was there was reportedly told to leave out of security concerns. Gupta stayed overnight with the victims, trying to help them out, but having trouble due to lack of supplies. The UN, for their part, claims it did not tell the doctors and other medical support to leave, but other organizations they were tied to might have. Gupta made sure all the victims survived through the night, because he’s an amazing human being. source
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15 Jan 2010 22:28

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U.S., World: Live from the Haiti relief effort: A reporter’s embedded tweets

  • As Marines board, anticipation building here for final, critical push to Haiti.
  • (Newport News, Va.) Daily Press reporter Hugh Lessig • Who’s reporting about the Haiti relief effort directly from the source. He’s tweeting about what’s happening directly from the USS Bataan, a naval amphibious assault carrier that’s headed directly to Haiti. Lessig, who works for a paper with a major Navy readership, is posting a lot of details, to which he says, “Don’t mean to be overly-trivial with these tweets, but fact is, morale is high on Bataan and must be rubbing off. Mission = Satisfaction.” source
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15 Jan 2010 22:16

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U.S., World: Haitians illegally in the U.S. can stay here for a little while

  • 18 months of buffer room granted for Haitians by Obama source
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15 Jan 2010 22:07

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World: In Haiti, desperation quickly grows among the survivors

Aid is slow to come in, and reports of looting have gone up significantly. The UN’s help is anemic compared to the need: 8,000 fed, 3 million hungry. source
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15 Jan 2010 08:17

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World: The current status of Haiti: Help needed, but tough to send

  • 50,000 are said to have died in the quake
  • Help is on its way President Barack Obama and many other world leaders have promised help to the devastated country, whose largest city was leveled by the 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday evening. But huge bottlenecks are preventing help from reaching those in need.
  • major bottlenecks Among other things, the U.S. has placed its own air traffic controllers in the Port-Au-Prince airport to help ease the burdens. But a lack of fuel is creating a clog of planes that have no way to get off the tarmac. It’s having a deadly effect on survivors.
  • “Angry and impatient” Haitians in desperate need of food and water are stuck in an awful purgatory as a result. “We hear on the radio that rescue teams are coming from the outside, but nothing is coming,” said survivor Jean-Baptiste Lafontin Wilfried. source
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14 Jan 2010 09:36

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U.S., World: Today’s a critical day for recovery from the Haiti quake

  • Recovery crews hope to coordinate today and possibly save lives. With the lingering possibility of 100,000 people dead (according to Felix Augustin, the Haitian consul general to the United Nations), aid groups are trying their best to save whoever they can. “Once we can get communications up so we can tell people where to go, what kind of help they can expect, we’ll be able to better manage the crisis,” said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who cut short a Pacific trip to help deal with the crisis. source
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06 Dec 2009 10:56

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U.S.: Education may be a good next step for former military

  • 12,000 troops converted into teachers source
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04 Dec 2009 15:25

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World: The U.S. will have a little help from their friends in Afghanistan

  • 7,000 troops coming from NATO, too source
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