The latest death toll from Bangladesh is 2200 and this number will almost certainly rise. Chris Mooney knew this was coming last Wednesday and he warned everyone to expect a disaster [Still No Weakening for Cyclone Sidr]. Why didn't CNN dispatch its crack team of hurricane reporters to the scene? And why, even now, is the news media treating this so lightly?
Yesterday I watched while the CNN anchors reported on the dead and injured and the millions of people who lost their homes. They then switched immediately to light-heated banter about elderly women playing basketball. We didn't see that kind of insensitivity during Katrina, did we?
Should there be a difference just because one hurricane is killing Americans while another is killing people in Bangledesh?
UPDATE: Death Toll Might Reach 10,000.
[Photo Credits: AFP: Bangladesh cyclone dead number 2,200, millions destitute]
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