{"id":220,"date":"2010-01-27T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/01\/27\/on-narrow-minded-press-coverage\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:36:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:36:21","slug":"on-narrow-minded-press-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/01\/27\/on-narrow-minded-press-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"On narrow-minded press coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Peru has for the last few days suffered extremely heavy rainfall.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livinginperu.com\/news-11302-natural-disasters-peru-tourists-wait-help-cusco-residents-face-their-own-drama\">Living in Peru blog <\/a>reports upon the impact for local people in the province of Urubamba, Cusco.   This includes<br \/>10 people killed; 2,000 collapsed houses leaving 10,000 people homeless; and crops, cattle and roads swept away.  The district of Yucay is isolated due to the floods, the Vilcanota river has broken its banks on both sides, causing many local residents houses to collapse, and the police station has also been swept away.<\/p>\n<p>So how does the international press report on the disaster?  Like this from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article7004836.ece\">The Times:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family: trebuchet ms\">Food and water dwindles as backpackers scramble to escape flood-hit Machu Picchu<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms\">British backpackers were among 1,500 tourists scrambling today to escape from Peru\u2019s ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, which has been cut off by floods and landslides since the weekend.  As food supplies dwindled and hostels ran out of space, many were sleeping in the train station and the town\u2019s main square, fighting for the few seats on rescue helicopters.  \u201cThe situation is about to erupt,\u201d Rudy Chalco, a tour guide with a group of elderly Europeans, told the Peruvian daily paper El Comercio.  \u201cWe don\u2019t have any more food, disorder is starting to reign, the soldiers and police that are here don\u2019t know what to do or how to organise the help that has arrived, people are getting desperate and no one is taking charge.\u201d  Some tourists were prepared to pay up to $500 (\u00a3300) for a seat on one of the rescue helicopters, he said. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And so it goes on for a few more paragraphs.  There is not a single mention of the plight of the local people, even though (as the article states) the authorities have declared a state of emergency. <\/p>\n<p>This is the same in news reports in many other newspapers from around the world.  Shameful!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Peru has for the last few days suffered extremely heavy rainfall. The Living in Peru blog reports upon the impact for local people in the province of Urubamba, Cusco. This includes10 people killed; 2,000 collapsed houses leaving 10,000 people homeless; and crops, cattle and roads swept away. 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