All About Them

I also was stunned at how quickly journalists were able to get there to 'report' the suffering - they don't help with anything. More disturbing is that they are consuming resources that people in need need besides just taking up space in what appears to be a very crowded area.

The earth opening up image is too funny.

Journalists

I go before thee to prepare a place for you.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/21/haiti.guantanamo/index.html?hpt=T2

Watching the coverage,on all channels,I have wondered why the 'reporters' have been whining about the 'slow' delivery of care...yet,they stand there with mics shoved under searchers/Drs/aid workers noses completely holding them up from their work..and ask the stupidest questions.It is just ridiculous,and I'm fast losing interest.Not in the disaster,or the desperate need,but these idiots making the story about themselves.Anderson Cooper is the most pathetic grandstanding fool,and cnn should be ashamed.

Torn

Syncro

Exacto-montie. Journalists stand around decrying the tragedy and lack of resources while people have open sores and wounds. They can actually help if they put down the cameras for a second -- you don't have to be an MD or trained medical personnel to pitch in. A lot of these lesions can be attended by anyone with basic "kitchen first-aid" and stuff you learned from health class. (People in developing countries usually don't even know the basics).

The biggest danger in the tropics is that even minor cuts can easily get infected and can quickly turn gangrenous and deadly. Carrying a bottle of alcohol or iodine, or even soap can help with a roll of gauze. And in lieu of antibiotics, use the old fashioned standby: sulfur powder (honey is another effective substitute). Sulfer powder is cheap, doesn't need a prescription and can be used externally or taken internally in small amounts (a few grams with lots of water).*

*Consult David Werner's "Where There Is No Doctor", approved by professionals and used by NGO's and aid workers in emergencies around the world.

ricardo

I'm with Syncro ... toss up .

I surprised the reporters didn't bring their Wii Guitar Hero III game with them to help alleviate the suffering...

Must be that newfangled NGO outfit:

"Reporters without Borders or Common Sense"

When you pull the old lady from the rubble after (7) seven days, you don't stick a microphone in their face and ask:

Reporter: How do you feel?

Answer of survivor: Well almost dead, but top of the morning to you. Can I get you coffee and donuts?

when the appropriate response is to offer water and bandages...

Rocket science for those in search of their humanity.

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North"

There's real work being done in Haiti (I believe and hope). These parasites are in the way.

(Is this harsh? But what good are they doing? What can they report on, from the Embassy? "Reporting" can be done - is being done, check out links at The Anchoress - by the people personally making a difference. Journalism is not a profession.)

Huh.

I would have assumed journalists arrived self-sustained with supplies, transportation, accommodation and security arranged and paid for by their news agencies.

Go figure.

If they are impeding or using up much needed supplies?

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Nothing to be conflicted about.They are parasites,plain and simple.BM has it.The only thing journos learn is how to look good in front of the mike,spewing crap,while appearing to care about the very people you are stepping on.No wonder they are all lefty a*&holes.

Speaking of journalists, Glen Beck announced on this afternoon's show that Air America was going off the air at 6 pm today. One less lefty media, hopefully CBC follows soon.

Someday, somewhere, someone will take that shoved microphone and truley shove it somewhere.

There is a connection between Biblical hypocrites and journalists and celebrities. Once their good deed(s) is caught on camera, they get all the rewards they want.

And yesterday on Oprah, she was talking with the CNN showboat Gupta. Gupta said that what really needs to happen is that food and water needs to get to the people who need it first and that takes place before security is in place. As if either of these media monkeys knew the first thing about it. Yeah....that's a good idea....send in a bunch of people with water and food, etc., and no security.

I am so sick of the left wing media and the idiots in Hollywood. But then that is what got them the worst President in US history.

I won't diss Gupta. He has used his medical skills more than his journalistic skills. If the rest of the reporters can do brain surgery and remove concrete from the brain, have at 'er.

I vote for the earth-opening option.

Sowhere was that picture taken,Kate? Certainly not in Haiti. My guess is a lanslide area somewhere on the Pacific coast.

I vote for the earth-opening option.

Me too if we can be sure they won't take any of the soldiers with them.

Yes, that's a "stock" photo, for illustrative purposes only.

Q: What do you call 20 Canadian journalists at the bottom of a hole in the ground in Haiti?

A: A start.

It is very difficult to remain strictly an abserver at times.
I recall the poor regard, afforded journos, by the guys in the period before TET and until the end.
I also recall a particularly unpopular fellow that sprinted through moderate to heavy fire to pull a wounded Marine to cover.....the reaction was instantaneous----when the lads realized what was up, an unscheduled "mad minute" occurred.
A "mad minute" is when everybody sends as much as possible downrange----spray and pray and all that.
When that reporter and the wounded guy were recovered----the reporter was very carefully checked out for damage and the slightest abrasion treated.....
Then I saw some guys rig him with a cast off flak vest and a brain-bucket-----for "the next time you do something stupid" (true sarcasm actually their highest compliment).
Then we noticed a number of those maggots had an awful lot of blood on them....the ones with clean clothes got ostracized...and exported.

I'd assume that 16 of the 20 are from the CBC,3 are CTV,and 1 blogger.Outside of the blogger,the real story will be the hardship of reporting in a disaster area and Harpers heartless neglect in supplying air conditioned porta pottys and Tim Hortons.

I agree that they should be putting their words into action by pitching in and actually providing assistance to the real victims of this natural disaster. Too bad they were not taught a sense of compassion at their journalist school instead of the standard leftist rubbish. If they insist on staying without helping the victims, let them survive on their own.

So the choice is for them to leave or swallowed up in the next earthquake or aftershock. Both seem like winners to me.

But who would give us the images that sell the papers and fill the airwaves? Let's face it, the bulk of the population in the developed world lives in fear and is ruled by their primal emotions. These guys recognize that and are just providing what we want to consume. If we didn't want to stop and look at the car wreck, they wouldn't be providing us these reports.

Don't get me wrong, I don't see value in what they are doing but we have to admit that in some sick way they are increasing shareholder value.

Can't see any real problem if they are self sufficient, trying to help as much as they can, or guarding/overseeing donated material to its destination. Otherwise, if they are the usual "nasty, leftist, detached, anthropologistic-mode scribblers", cowering 24/7 in the shadows of the embassy courtyard while spewing bile in their reports, take them out to Cite Sole and dump them there so they can "absorb some of the local colour" before their bosses send the needed ransoms.

The bleating hearts bleating.
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"What is delaying Haiti's aid?
BBC News - ‎4 hours ago‎
The earthquake in Haiti has left an estimated 1.5 million people homeless and tens of thousands without access to food, water and medical supplies."

Sgt said "Can't see any real problem if they are self sufficient,"

My take is that if they could get down there with all their supplies they took up space that Medics or Aid workers could have used. I may be wrong but I picture them behind the fence looking out at the suffering and wringing their hands proclaiming they wish they could help. Then going back to their quarters, eating a nice meal, then surfing the web while enjoying a single malt scotch. Probably have cases of bottled water on hand for personal use only. Changes of clothes. Showers.

Ok. I may be stretching the point but you catch my drift.

journalists in this era of instant everything are merely overpaid paparazzi.

They need to to be there to report cannibalism ... like the kind that happened in NO ... and ... never mind.

I have read that these journalists are being exposed to second hand tobacco smoke - they do not have smoking bans in that country! - think of the risk these brave men and women are taking - and you dare criticise them. Probably most of you, safe here at home, are not risking your own lives by being exposed to second hand tobacco smoke. I just hope that they took some no smoking signs (in both official languages) with them to protect them when the forces are not there to enforce the signage.

I saw that clip of Anderson Cooper carying that kid. Yeah it DID look selfserving.

And that shot of the bloody handprints was over the top.

The resulting impression? :
A distastefull "whitebread journo leaps over tall buildings in a single bound...."