Aljazeera says 10,000 expected deaths in Bangladesh and 1000 whale hunt

[donsu]

yes, they are hunting for 1000 whales, not the 500 I'd heard before.


http://english.aljazeera.net/English

10,000 dead - sigh

tick, tick, tick

[DS1]

1. 1,000 whales for science?

Those boats should be sunk. No survivors.

[n2doc]

3. Including Humbacks. F**king Barbarians n/t

[KharmaTrain]

2. Corporate Media...If We Don't See It, It Didn't Happen

There's been little coverage of Typhoon Sidra and the tragedy this is causing. However covering these stories requries something these networks don't have nor want...journalists. They cost too much money and their stories aren't "sexy" enough. It's more important to manufacture and manipulate news than to actually cover it.

The parallels with Katrina are eerie. The big difference is much of the Ganges delta is full of small hamlets close to the water and easily flooded. IRC, a similar tragedy happened in 1971 that led to Bangladesh's independence.

[AndyTiedye]

4. Journalists Have to Be Able to Get to the Story to Cover It