Why the Haitian hurricane barely graced your newsfeeds: bad timing or do we simply not care?
This week I’ve had an ‘OpEd’ article published in The Euroculturer Magazine on a slightly different topic from my usual optimistic-loving-life-free-spirit-global-citizen-traveller style…
It’s titled ‘Why the Haitian hurricane barely graced your newsfeeds: bad timing or do we simply not care?’
It’s about the hurricane in Haiti, the earthquake in Italy, Eurocentrism, the empathy gap, aid fatigue and the blame-game between journalists and readers. I’d love to hear your comments, and particularly if you find this sort of topic interesting and would like to see more of it? Let me know what you think!
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I think you have some valid points and all three are probably correct. From an American’s perspective, the US media was of course consumed with the election so I doubt many people paid any attention to this. I am not sure if they didn’t care or not, but there just wasn’t much mental energy for this I think which is sad.
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Thanks Jeff, and yes I agree it is sad. I’d love to find a way to make people care again, even when there are other big stories dominating the news.
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