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Mar. 1st, 2010
Latest Updates on Chile’s Earthquake
Mar. 1st, 2010 10:14 pmBy ROBERT MACKEY
As my colleague Marc Lacey reports, aftershocks struck Chile Monday morning, complicating efforts to rescue survivors of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated much of the country on Saturday. The death toll now stands at 711, but is expected to rise. The Lede is tracking the response to the earthquake online. Readers who are in Chile are encouraged to submit first-hand accounts in the form of text, video or photographs by posting comments or links in the thread below.
( You can read The Lede feed at the NY Times website )
It's funny (in a non-haha kind of way), but last week I'd heard or read somewhere that the coverage and concern for the Chilean earthquake wasn't going to be as strong as the one for the Haitian earthquake. So far that seems accurate. There are at least two articles from the Tiimes, in particular, that I'd seen on my iGoogle this afternoon and had wanted to post that are now kaputz. Well...not kaputz, but off my 9-header-max listing. While I'm sure the same kind of thing happened during the Haitian earthquake coverage, the "old news" was replaced with more Haitian news. It took work to find this particular article.
Anywho, so what are people's thoughts? Are we just disastered out? Is it that, although this quake is stronger than Haiti's, Chili is already earthquake prone and so it's "less" newsworthy b/c it's less shocking? I mean an 8.8 is no joke, but Chili is better prepared for a quake than Haiti ever was. Do you think it perhaps has to do with a quake on top of Haiti's abject poverty makes it "more" newsworthy? Or perhaps because there were so many foreigners already in Haiti dealing with other issues when the quake struck. Do you have thoughts at all? Random comments from strangers welcome.
As my colleague Marc Lacey reports, aftershocks struck Chile Monday morning, complicating efforts to rescue survivors of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated much of the country on Saturday. The death toll now stands at 711, but is expected to rise. The Lede is tracking the response to the earthquake online. Readers who are in Chile are encouraged to submit first-hand accounts in the form of text, video or photographs by posting comments or links in the thread below.
( You can read The Lede feed at the NY Times website )
It's funny (in a non-haha kind of way), but last week I'd heard or read somewhere that the coverage and concern for the Chilean earthquake wasn't going to be as strong as the one for the Haitian earthquake. So far that seems accurate. There are at least two articles from the Tiimes, in particular, that I'd seen on my iGoogle this afternoon and had wanted to post that are now kaputz. Well...not kaputz, but off my 9-header-max listing. While I'm sure the same kind of thing happened during the Haitian earthquake coverage, the "old news" was replaced with more Haitian news. It took work to find this particular article.
Anywho, so what are people's thoughts? Are we just disastered out? Is it that, although this quake is stronger than Haiti's, Chili is already earthquake prone and so it's "less" newsworthy b/c it's less shocking? I mean an 8.8 is no joke, but Chili is better prepared for a quake than Haiti ever was. Do you think it perhaps has to do with a quake on top of Haiti's abject poverty makes it "more" newsworthy? Or perhaps because there were so many foreigners already in Haiti dealing with other issues when the quake struck. Do you have thoughts at all? Random comments from strangers welcome.