I truly do not know what to make of Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta. I believe they are reporters who are also tremendously caring people, willing to do what it takes to help their fellow man: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/1...looting-chaos/ and Gupta staying behind with dozens of patients when the UN ordered doctors away, plus operating on a girl on one of the ships, etc. They seem to be absolutely fantastic....but there is that little kernel of doubt that perhaps some is staged and some is opportunistic because the camera is on. I hope they are the former rather than the latter.
Coincidentally, a couple of commentaries in the LA Times and Washington Post looking at doctor/journalists in action in Haiti, as examined in the media notes column in the Washington Post:
Troutman, will bro-in-law have access to Facebook to give us updates from Haiti? Or perhaps your sis passing along the info? I'd be very attentive. I would encourage people to take a few minutes tonight to catch some of the Haiti relief broadcasts. While it can be treated as free publicity for some attention-ho celebs, the key is that you will get a better understanding of the situation and just why this disaster requires our help more than ever. I am seriously considering taking my kids to Haiti in about a year, to help some of the reparation process.
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Troutman, will bro-in-law have access to Facebook to give us updates from Haiti? Or perhaps your sis passing along the info? I'd be very attentive. I would encourage people to take a few minutes tonight to catch some of the Haiti relief broadcasts. While it can be treated as free publicity for some attention-ho celebs, the key is that you will get a better understanding of the situation and just why this disaster requires our help more than ever. I am seriously considering taking my kids to Haiti in about a year, to help some of the reparation process.
I should get updates from my sister - not sure if he can post to his facebook there. It sounds like they are actually based in the Dominican Republic, and flying missions into Haiti.
Hope for Haiti (US broadcast) will last two hours with names like Pitt, Clooney, Madonna, Beyonce, Clinton, Damon, Eastwood, Streep, Freeman, DiCaprios, Kidman and Hanks. It will now be followed by UK broadcast including Bono, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Coldplay, Springsteen, Timberlake, Wonder, Blige, and Sting. Simon Cowell is putting together a song that will include the likes of Leona Lewis, Susan Boyle, and Cheryl Cole. Canada will have it's own broadcast tonight...Metric, Nelly Furtado, K'naan, the Hip, MJ Fox, Norm Jewison, Jason Reitman, Sandra Oh, Eugene Levy, Alex Trebec, Rick Mercer, and Mike Holmes....man, do we suck.
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click on: Helicopter aid in Haiti A Calgary helicopter firm has taken two of its choppers to help with the relief effort in Haiti. But they're grounded in the Dominican Republic. We speak to one of the pilots waiting to help.
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Perhaps this has already been mentioned, but I don't understand why it takes a particularly bad natural disaster to pay attention to a country's poverty and needs.
It's great that there's all this attention devoted to Haiti and raising relief; such as the NHL's efforts and what MTV is putting together.
But why isn't there all this effort for relief in impoverished countries throughout the year? Why aren't celebrities doing this sort of thing to other places that need it at least as much as Haiti does now?
It seems to me, at this point anyway, that a lot of people are donating and paying attention to this for the wrong reasons. A "I'm great, look at what I'm doing!" approach.
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Perhaps this has already been mentioned, but I don't understand why it takes a particularly bad natural disaster to pay attention to a country's poverty and needs.
It's great that there's all this attention devoted to Haiti and raising relief; such as the NHL's efforts and what MTV is putting together.
But why isn't there all this effort for relief in impoverished countries throughout the year? Why aren't celebrities doing this sort of thing to other places that need it at least as much as Haiti does now?
It seems to me, at this point anyway, that a lot of people are donating and paying attention to this for the wrong reasons. A "I'm great, look at what I'm doing!" approach.
I think a lot of them have to support it like it or not. The risk of losing popularity points with the public if they aren't helping is too high. All it takes is one journo or paparazzi to ask 'what have you given to Haiti?' You can't say nothing to that question - you'd be the devil overnight.
But why isn't there all this effort for relief in impoverished countries throughout the year? Why aren't celebrities doing this sort of thing to other places that need it at least as much as Haiti does now?
As far as I know is they are in other places and were in Haiti before this, its the media that puts it on the back burner because it doesn't sell papers like Tiger cheating on his wife, Wars, Hurricanes and Earthquakes. It's unfortunate that it takes hundreds of thousands of people to die to focus on the real issue of how bad things were beforehand. Hopefully this disaster doesn't mean that people will focus on it for the next few weeks and forget when it falls off the front pages or top story of the day.
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It seems to me, at this point anyway, that a lot of people are donating and paying attention to this for the wrong reasons. A "I'm great, look at what I'm doing!" approach.
Who cares what the reasons are? A buck is a buck.
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Just wondering if anyone donated through text? Cause I just donated 50 dollars through 5 dollar incremental texts. But if I get charged 15 cents for each text, I am gonna be super pissed at Telus. Lol, I'm cheap, but still they should know better.
Both the Canadian and American telethons tonight were somber, yet also entertaining.
I wouldn't be sure what to say if I called to make a donation and ended up talking to Mel Gibson.
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