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| Reporting the Haiti story on TV |
| The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper knows the 24-hour news cycle as well as anyone, and last week, he lamented that the survivors of the Haiti earthquake
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 25-January-2010
3:10:39 AM |
| The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper knows the 24-hour news cycle as well as anyone, and last week, he lamented that the survivors of the Haiti earthquake would soon fall victim to that reality.
"We all know what's going to happen" in a week or two, he said to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the CNN medical correspondent and a practicing neurosurgeon. "People are just going to lose interest in this as a story. They're going to stop watching."
Gupta answered, "In part, it's up to you and up to us to make sure they don't forget."
The devastation in Haiti has, in the words of the Pew Research Center, dominated the "public's consciousness" in a way that few international disasters ever have. Dozens of television channels showed a celebrity telethon on Friday, raising at least $57 million. The attention has come in large part because of the news media's reportorial muscle, the kind that is harder to flex in a challenging economic climate.
In an event of this magnitude, "you cover it first and worry about the money second," said Paul Friedman, an executive vice president for CBS News.
Executives acknowledge that the worries arise now. They say, however, that the same technology that let reporters and camera crews arrive ahead of aid shipments will let them withdraw staff from the country but return with relative ease when events call for it.
The aftermath of the quake most likely will demand more attention. A Haitian official estimated Sunday that the government had buried 150,000 bodies.
Scores of reporters reached the ruined capital, Port-au-Prince, on Jan. 13, within 24 hours of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake. They were, in a word, stunned. "In 30 seconds, this country was set back 100 years," Bill Hemmer, an anchor at the Fox News Channel, said.
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