by Broken Promises 8 Replies latest jw friends
After watching news casts on the Queensland floods and cyclone, the Christchurch earthquake and Japan's earthquake and tsunami....
When these reporters go to these areas, do they bring their own food and water? Surely they don't expect to be looked after at these afflicted places?
Does anyone know?
They have a team, I'm sure someone is in charge of those necessities, and probably even has a little extra to barter with the locals for better access / protection etc.
Some bring along military style RTEs (ready-to-eat) packages... But they're usually taken care of... for example, when I went to Haiti weeks after the earth quake, there were news crews staying at guest houses and the one hotel that didn't suffer too much damage. Some were camped out at the airport surrounded by military from different countries, mainly the US army... but they usually know who to contact right away and there's always someone meeting them upon arrival...
Sometimes the rescue squads take them in their helicopters, and they return after they work for one day.
I would like to know why would i want to go to a place where there is a nuclear meltdown happening? i would not risk my life just to be the first to report it. I know that there has to be news out there. but these reporters sometimes dont think about the out come of things. if there not careful now in years to come there will have some type of cancer and blame their jobs.. i dont know just my thought.
I would like to know why would i want to go to a place where there is a nuclear meltdown happening? i would not risk my life just to be the first to report it. I know that there has to be news out there. but these reporters sometimes dont think about the out come of things. if there not careful now in years to come there will have some type of cancer and blame their jobs.. i dont know just my thought.
I don't think any of the on-the-air personalities got any closer than downtown Tokyo.
With the Japan thing, what strikes me is the horribly ignorant people they send to cover a nuclear disaster. They need to send more technical people to cover these things, or at least have the stories run by a good technical writer/editor that understands the subject before release. We have been getting basically noise. They were reporting people hospitalized due to radiation including one guy that got hospitalized for a broken arm after a containment explosion. I didn't know radiation broke bones.
This is an interesting behind-the-scenes youtube video of a camera crew following Cyclone Yasi:
To cover the story and let the rest of us know what is going on so either, we aren't ignorant to the event or so we don't all have to go there ourselves and gawk.
