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In the wake of the Asian Tsunami, many individuals and
organisations published commentary and analysis online
looking at how the media covered the disaster. Here
is a sampling of some interesting online sources and
discussions.
East
and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet
Resources
This lists several dozen media and other websites whose
content covered different aspects of the Asian Tsunami
2004. It is a very useful collection with direct links
to each site or source listed.
http://bulldog2.redlands.edu/dept/AsianStudiesDept/
tsunami.html
National
Geographic Online
Brian Handwerk looks at how the disaster was widely
reported on the Internet by "citizen journalists"—eyewitnesses
who published their own stories online via journals
known as Web logs, or blogs.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/
0126_050126_tv_tsunami_blogs.html
News
Dissector
Noted media critic and blogger-in-chief at MediaChannel.org,
Danny Schechter, looks at how the media covered the
Asian Tsunami. This comment was posted on March 30,
three months after the disaster.
http://www.newsdissector.org/blog/2005/03/30/#1167
The
Guardian newspaper, UK
For the western media, it was clear that a tourist's
tragedy is more important than that of the 'locals',
says Jeremy Seabrook, writing in the Guardian four days
after the disaster. His views – titled ‘In
death, imperialism lives on’, were shared by many
in Asia who watched the saturation coverage by ‘global’
channels. This comment was published on 31 December
2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/story/
0,15671,1381295,00.html
South
Asian Journalists Association (SAJA)
This media website offers useful tips and links on covering
the tsunami in particular, and disasters in general.
The resources are mainly specific to the disaster in
South Asia, but have several links to info about the
rest of Asia as well.
http://www.saja.org/tsunami.html
Mail
& Guardian newspaper, South Africa
Columnist Matthew Buckland comments on how bloggers
and other online media changed the way this disaster
was covered
http://www.themedia.co.za/article.aspx?
articleid=198558&area=/media_columnistsnet_savvy/
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