Haiti earthquake barely made a blip on us news

[Demovictory9]

[Thomas Hurt]

1. The media is currently more concerned with the Afghans that they have been ignoring for a decade

[sprinkleeninow]

2. They partial to the damage and destruction that appeals to their audiences.

Not human lives necessarily.

[Moebym]

3. They know their audience

Wouldn't be interested in news coming out of a "s--thole country" like Haiti.

It's full of icky black people and besides, they can't pin any blame for the earthquake on the president, and there is no plight of women and girls to hang over his head.

[electric_blue68]

4. Since we have a fair sized population of Hatians in NYC our Local Public Radio station has...

...been doing coverage.

[Demovictory9]

5. Thats good

[electric_blue68]

6. Yeah, I think so, too.

[maxsolomon]

7. Let's count the disasters this summer.

1. Haitian Earthquake
2. Devastating Flash Floods in Europe and the American Heartland
3. Devastating Wildfires in the US, Europe, Russia
4. Delta Variant CV-19 surge, worldwide
5. Massive drought in the Colorado River basin
6. Unprecedented heatwave in the PNW

That's off the top of my head. The Haitian Earthquake made the news, but there's a lot of competition for space.

[IcyPeas]

8. Not in the news but the U.S. are helping...

https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-haiti-3e076b660e9afe03a93bdd4f72288a9e

U.S. military aircraft are now ferrying food, tarps and other material into southern Haiti amid a shift in the international relief effort to focus on helping people in the areas hardest hit by the recent earthquake to make it through the hurricane season.

Aircraft flying out of the capital, Port-au-Prince, arrived throughout the day Saturday in the mostly rural, mountainous southern peninsula that was the epicenter of the Aug. 14 earthquake.
...
They lost their gardens, they lost their animals,” Tiné said as he took a break from helping unload boxes of rice. “The mountains slid down and they lost everything.”

At the request of the Haitian government, getting as much help to such people as fast as possible is now the focus of the $32 million U.S. relief effort, said Tim Callaghan, a disaster response team leader for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

[Demovictory9]

12. glad to hear it

[onecaliberal]

9. Unfortunately they're focused on disaster porn and the eeevil President.

[Bev54]

10. There seemed to be more news about it on the

CNN international than there was on CNN domestic.

[Kaleva]

11. Famines in Africa don't get much attention either.