Disaster
You know what? Not to stretch for a silver lining, but hopefully the Muslim insurgents and Buddhist majority in Thailand will put aside their differences, wherever they seem to have sprung from, and work together to rebuild a country that's been devastated since your last post.
There was something really annoying on NPR this morning--touching on the Asia disaster, one of the hosts said something like "And there was some good news to come out of the tsunami; four people were found alive on an island, carried by waves, after their boat sank." Of course, he then noted that over 150,000 people have died. Not to be a cynic, but what a terrible way to introduce a small, mildly happy story. It really bothered me.
There was something really annoying on NPR this morning--touching on the Asia disaster, one of the hosts said something like "And there was some good news to come out of the tsunami; four people were found alive on an island, carried by waves, after their boat sank." Of course, he then noted that over 150,000 people have died. Not to be a cynic, but what a terrible way to introduce a small, mildly happy story. It really bothered me.
posted by DD at 2:14 PM
1 Comments:
I wrote my inaptly named post before the tsunami. I totally agree that the coverage though has been annoying. It's the fucking American emphasis on happy endings I guess because of the holiday season. Sanjay Gupta on CNN said that people in Sri Lanka were "optimistic about the future." It's one thing to work hard and pull through but quite another to be "optimistic" when you've lost your entire family. Really irked me.
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