That's because the page is packed with the newest porn in the industry. It’s more spectacular when you see a tsunami smashing into a Japanese village than to read about farmers getting insurance when they buy fertiliser,” he said.No matter your kink or your sexuality, surfing will surely grant you a wonderful time. “There are hundreds of stories out there but the media don’t seem to pick them up. It’s brilliant to see what’s happening,” Bob McKerrow told Mediawatch. "When they get hit by disasters, fertiliser companies pay them an insurance premium. If he buys five bags of fertiliser in a year he’s actually insuring himself," he said. A poor farmer who’s got half an acre of land today pays a small tax on that to pay for an insurance policy when he buys a bag of cement. “Somehow we are not good at telling those stories. "I was working and living in India when the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck and I received first-hand reports lives were saved as many villages sought refuge in these cyclone shelters," he said. Mr McKerrow said the shelters had saved thousands of lives in five further cyclones since then. The same in India because they’ve spent so much money on community preparedness and we’re seeing the benefit of it,” he said.Īfter 20,000 deaths when a cyclone hit India's southeast coast in 1977, he spent two years supervising the construction of cyclone shelters in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. In 1985 just 20,000, Today - virtually no-one. “In the next cyclone 50,000 were killed in 1980. Around the coastline of Bangladesh they built cyclone shelters and got volunteers to disseminate cyclone warnings and knock on the door of every house and make sure that people knew,” he said. “In the Bay of Bengal cyclone in 1970, around one million people were killed. Someone who saw this first-hand was Bob McKerrow, formerly a disaster relief expert with the Red Cross for more than 30 years. There were also television commercials, coastal sirens, buses, police officers, and public address systems blaring warnings in local languages," the paper said. "To warn people of what was coming, they deployed everything they had: 2.6 million text messages, 43,000 volunteers, nearly 1000 emergency workers.
Under the headline: How Do You Save a Million People From a Cyclone? Ask a Poor State in India The New York Times reported that Indian authorities “whisked more than a million people to safety, executing a meticulous evacuation plan that they have been perfecting ever since that disastrous storm in 1999.”Īfter that 'super-cyclone' killed thousands, hundreds of new shelters were built on the coastline.
Newshub at 6 viewers for example saw a report from ITV news in which correspondent Juliet Bremner described gasps of horror as a huge construction crane “crashed down on buildings below in this densely populated city”.īut the real story was not how many people died during the cyclone but how few, considering the state of Odisha has the same population as Spain but far fewer resources to deploy against extreme weather.
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That’s odd when you consider that 155,178 people identified as Indian when asked to indicate their ethnic identity in the 2013 census, while only 12,342 described themselves as American and 21,462 stated they were born in the US.Ī simpler explanation to the disparity in coverage is the easy availability of pictures for TV from the US.īut when Cyclone Fani tore through one of India's poorest coastal regions last weekend, there were plenty of pictures for the media to run and it was widely reported here. Partly that’s because our news media assume there’s more interest here in what happens in the US than in India. A storm in Indiana might make news here, but not one in India even if it’s much more destructive and deadly. If a storm strikes in the US, it’s more likely to be in the world news here than one in Bangladesh affecting far more people. An Indian woman sits with her child next to storm-damaged buildings in Puri in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, Photo: AFP
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