Haiti cannot be rebuilt without the full participation of Haitians, he said, and they should be in charge. He also endorsed calls that Haiti's $1 billion dollar debt be forgiven.
The media coverage to date has been missing this type of fact-based and experience driven framework. Its been organized around images, not investigations.
Sadly, tragedies like the one in Haiti require better and more explanatory coverage, just as the media packs up and heads to the other disaster, if not to face pink slips in new rounds of news cutbacks.
News Dissector Danny Schechter has directed a new film, Plunder The Crime Of Our Time about the financial crisis as a crime story. (plunderthecrimeofourtime.com)
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