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Media Eclipse-by CALIGULA Cosimo

Brief Counter:

- The earthquake in Haiti we have seen more images than necessary.

- Yes, but it is so that people give!

On the week following the earthquake, the world's newspapers have published 6.14 million papers on the subject. If you could replay any coverage provided by radio and television stations worldwide during those seven days, we could relive the event 24 hours 24 during 25 694 days or the equivalent of 70.4 years.

Hours and hours of programs which necessarily had to renew the content. The number of casualties, the Marines landed, the survivors, looting, the border with the Republic Dominican , fundraising and the allocation thereof, landing clearances ...

But it soon became vital to differentiate, to distinguish the subjects of hundreds of colleagues found in Port-au-Prince. Some channels are therefore bet on the sensationalism. CNN-bearers with two journalists / rescuers stars Sanjay Gupta aka Batman and Anderson Cooper aka Superman. One and one save lives before and during their reporting.

And the Web was no exception. The Google Crisis Response with its module of missing (or never opportunity to stage their "Do not Be Evil "). Interactive maps before / after earthquake New York Times . CNN with its formidable board cameras Haiti interactive 360 °. A dozen pages or Facebook groups more than 400,000 members (the group "For the Haitians = 1 Euro 1 fan 'has even reached 1,392,000 members). But also the creation of Twitter or Flickr stream fed by local NGOs.

A little atmosphere webreality "Haiti Live as if you were there!" has cleverly installed. Strongly application Haiti Airport where you must try to land the aircraft NGOs, journalists, soldiers and evangelicals.

unprecedented media coverage, therefore, who has raised 15 million euros in the first week in France. Amount exceeding the 10 million euros of donations received by NGOs five years ago when the 2004 tsunami, during the same period of 7 days. That's 50% additional donations through worldwide media coverage 2.5 times higher than that of the tsunami on period of 7 days.

According to sociologist Denis Muzet "immediacy of information has facilitated the formation of emotional flow and emotional" .

The problem is that media coverage has dropped sharply. The trend after the 2 nd week has reversed the 40.5 million euros harvested for Haiti are well below the 65 million euros raised by NGOs in France for the tsunami on same period.

The eclipse is over.

Brief Countertop (cont'd):

- People give less to Haiti than to the tsunami, it's ugly.

- The tsunami is stronger than you.

NB: E n contrast to a scientific perspective the results are excellent. This earthquake has revealed to anthropologists U.S. a small island and its population of 10 million very poor people, located a few hundred kilometers only Florida. Nothing no suggestion that such a discovery was still possible.