Visual constructions of ‘the great white hope’
Neo-Imperialist infantilizing of Haiti by Red Cross.
Posted on Sunday, January 24th 2010
Disaster Porn, CNN on Haiti
I am dismayed and agree with BAGnews latest post “Why and How I Lost It (Over CNN “Getting Off” On a Haitian Victim Rescue).
The current (but far from new) obsessive coverage of tragedy, the lack of respect for the victims, showing horrific images that would never be shown of North American and European victims, calling victims who are homeless and starving “looters” for trying to survive, money to cover each unfolding moment of horror but it is not a tragedy that the status quo in Haiti is abject poverty and underdevelopment and that is neither newsworthy or investment worthy and on and on… The coverage is blatantly racist and amounts to dehumanizing visual exploitation by CNN.
Posted on Friday, January 22nd 2010
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