Introduction

This report examines the effect that News, Media, and Culture played during - and immediately following - the January 12th - 7.1 Earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

In particular, we will look at the role that Sub-channel Radio station Radyo Pa Nou (located in the Haitian community of Brooklyn, New York), played in providing much needed information both to Haiti (during the early days of the disaster), as well as to those Haitians living in Brooklyn at the time.

In examining the role that Radyo Pa Nou played in connecting the Brooklyn community to itself (to quell the fears and anxieties of the Haitian community living here) we will also look at how this local media outlet’s coverage differed from the mainstream media’s ‘Global’ coverage in order to serve the more specific needs of the ‘Local’ community.

This comparison appears as a short documentary that includes a series of interviews with Radyo Pa Nou station owner Joseph Jude Geffrard, newscaster and talk show host Emmanuel Marcellus, community church leaders, and several residents in the community who were affected by the tragedy.

As a part of this report, we have also included a brief overview of the history of Haiti, which we thought would be useful in order to understand the impact such a disaster - in a nation where disasters (both natural and political) are the norm – had upon its patriots and its ex-patriots alike.

Each article appearing here has been researched and written by a member of our team, and all references to the source materials are readily available as well. Links are also provided to a variety of other background information, so that the visitor may move backward and forward at will to fill in the story according to their individual interest.

Additionally, as technical information about Sub-Channel Radio is useful for the full understanding of how this new technology made Radyo Pa Nou the effective instrument that it was throughout the crises, a brief ‘lay’ explanation of that technology is made available, along with further links to more technical references for those who are interested.

Our composite blog, audio, and video presentations of facts and figures, along with our interviews with members of the Haitian community in Brooklyn, and radio station personnel, is by no means complete – and we would like it to be – so towards that end we invite comments, articles, and information to add to our project from you.

We thank you for your visit to our site, and hope you will find our presentation useful towards understanding the impact that news, media, and culture play in shaping the response to a disaster of this nature.

America in Haiti, and Haiti in America 1492 -2010

From its initial discovery in 1492 by Christopher Columbus (who called the island Hispaniola), until 1697 when France and Spain divided the Island in two (the Western third – which ended up belonging to France – and was at that time called Saint-Domingue) grew and prospered as the richest colony in the Western Hemisphere due to the enormous profits earned from the growing of sugar, coffee, and indigo. These plantations were profitable in no mean part because they were operated by the French using an immense African slave population,

100 years later (in 1791), inspired by the French Revolution, Toussaint l’Ouverture (a former slave himself) led a revolution against the French that ultimately led to freedom, independence, and the establishment of the first nation born of an African slave revolt. At its conclusion, in 1804, he renamed the country Haiti - an indigenous Taíno word - used by its original inhabitants to describe its beautiful up-hill mountain ranges,

Unfortunately however, it has been pretty much all down-hill from there.

The 19th Century saw the country fall into rapid economic decline, with Haiti agreeing to pay France an unimaginable sum of money as reparations for the slave trade lost as a result of its struggle for independence - a sum many thought to have already been paid for by the blood of the revolutionaries.

And the first half of the 20th century saw American Marines intervene and occupy the country on behalf of the U.S.’ own economic interests. During that time they dismantled the constitution, established a harsh colonial system, and redrew Haiti’s border with its neighbor to the east, the Dominican Republic. Upon their departure in 1934, Dictator Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic proceeded to murder 20,000 Haitians left on the Dominican side of the border.

And things did not get better.

From 1956 to 1986 the country was ruled first by Françoise, and then by his son Jean-Claude Duvalier – known respectively as Papa Doc, and Baby Doc - and the Tonton Macute. This brutal and violent group indiscriminately massacred many thousands of people throughout the country, and precipitated a mass exodus of Haitians to the United States – mostly to places like Florida, New Jersey, and New York, where they constitute the majority of the Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn.

The end of the 20th Century saw continued political strife in Haiti with the election - removal by coup - and reinstatement of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti.

The start of the 21st Century saw widespread violence and human rights abuses break out throughout the country, and in 2004 an armed revolt in the North forced Aristide to flee the country for good. Also in 2004 tropical storm Jeanne killed 3,000 people, and in 2008 hurricanes Gustav, Hannah and Ike left 800,000 people in need of humanitarian aid.

And then, on January 12th 2010, a 7.1 earthquake hit Port-au-Prince.

Site for celebrity video

This site has a music (celebrity video) that certainly makes it seem (by the time it's over) like all the problems of the world have been solved (echhh)

http://www.tonic.com/videos/helping-haiti-everybody-hurts-video-simon-cowell/

Radio Haiti Tonic.com

Haitian-Americans Turn to Community Radio Stations for Comfort, Information

By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:09 PM ET

The stations are broadcast on a special frequency known as SCA, which can be heard only with special $50 radios that pick up the small frequencies.

Much has been made of how social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have been used to share vital information about Haiti quickly. But many Haitian-Americans, especially folks living in the New York City area, are relying on a different type of media to try and receive the latest news about the disaster and desperately gather information about their loved ones: community radio stations.

According to the New York Daily News, thousands of New Yorkers are tuning into so-called "pirate" radio stations that have been running continuously since Tuesday's devastating quake.

Haven't heard the stations on your local dial? That's because the stations are broadcast on a special frequency known as SCA, which can be heard only with special $50 radios that pick up the small frequencies.

Radio Panou 101.9 out of Flatbush, Brooklyn — where many Haitian-Americans live — is one such station that has been broadcasting nonstop since the 7.0 magnitude quake. They are staying in close contact with their sister station in Haiti and providing some of the most detailed, and personal, information about the devastation — and fielding calls from folks desperate for word from loved ones.

"My mother, I don't hear nothing at all. She is 78 years old," Shirley Diop of Harlem said during a call to Radio Panou Wednesday. "I am hoping someone can help me hear from her. It is very sad. My only hope to hear from her is the radio."

Radio Eclair 88.9 in West Hempstead on Long Island has had some success getting word to worried relatives outside Haiti. Station owner Acelus Etienne said he was desperate to know whether his parents were OK, and was panicked until a caller phoned in to say he heard from someone who saw them alive.

"Lucky for me, somebody told me they saw my parents and they're OK, and that gives me some relief," he said.

Not all callers have been so fortunate, but it's clear these radio stations at least provide a place for people to get informed, grieve and get through the unimaginable tragedy, together.



Photo courtesy of cinezi via stock.xchang.


Category: Americas, Regional/Local, US, World
Company: New York Daily News
Place: Haiti
Subject: Radio

Organizing the Assignment - some (more) thoughts to discuss

Time Line
Start Anywhere!


1880


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1980



1990
2000
Jan 2010
Feb 2010 Mar 2010


Apr 2010



Creation
Occupation
Independence (Link everything back and forth)
Debt
Colonialism
Santaria
Despotism
Papa Doc
Ton Ton Macute
Poverty
Boat People
Haiti in America
Debt Forgiveness
Clinton Global Initiative
Earthquake
US Media
International
National
Disaster
Rescue
Relief
Fund Raising (Red +)
Feel Good
Local
Brooklyn
Radio

Story amplified (to large) by mainstream media (Globalization effect)
Story amplified (serving) local media (SCR) (Anit-Globalization approach)
Information for Brooklyn gets to Brooklyn via Haiti
Information for Haiti gets to Haiti via Brooklyn
Integrated into community
Community exists without physical boundaries
Story disappears in mainstream media
Story ongoing in local media.

Church
Print?
TV?

Brief history of Haiti and reasons for its poverty (vis a vis Republica Dominicana)
Blog Commentary on History (links to sources) (Short)
Pictures of Haiti 1880 – 1980
(Stock) Stills and Video

Political structure of Haiti Papa DocDuvale – Aristede –
History of Santaria (Voodoo) and Christianity (links to Human Rights readings)
Blog Commentary on Politics (links to sources) (Short)
Migration to America, and the creation of the Haitian-American Sub-Culture
(Stock) Video and Stills

Haiti in the 21st Century
Globalization and its effects
Debt and Debt Forgiveness
Clinton Global Initiative
“You’ve got to agree, it’s getting better – “
Blog on Pro Vs Anti Globalization effect of media in Haiti (links to sources)

The Earthquake and its aftermath
24 hour news cycle
Mass Media coverage
Sub Channel Radio (Radyo Pa Nu)
Blog on news coverage (amount and types of stories) (links to media ownership readings)
Blog on fundraising (institutional [governments - red cross - etc] and celebrity)
(Stock) Video of Earthquake and aftermath
(Stock) Examples of News (TV) coverage (Anderson Cooper, Brian Williams, FOX MSNBC)
(Stock) Radio Coverage (Pa Nu) of immediate aftermath and connection to Haiti
Video Interviews with Joseph, Emmanuel, Footage of Station, Community,
Church Service, Ministers, Victims/Citizens, etc. MUSIC (links in and out)
Blog on National Vs Local coverage Globalization VS Anti- Globalization (What serves best in what situation) link to globalization readings (who cares about that anyway)
Blog on the Effects of New Media Technology on Old Media Territories (like SCR)

Conclusions
Short observations
The more things change the more they stay the same?
Community Counts
What will happen now?
History of other pledges that were forgotten
Who cares about Haiti?
Perhaps, only the Haitian Diaspora
Stayin’ Alive!
How to maintain momentum
Crises creates opportunity
How to measure success
Video Commentaries?

Clinton Global Initiative: Building Haiti’s Economy, One Mango at a Time

Building Haiti’s Economy, One Mango at a Time
Authors: Paul Collier and Jean-Louis Warholz
Source: The New York Times
Date: January 29, 2010
January 29, 2010

Op-Ed Contributors

Building Haiti’s Economy, One Mango at a Time

By PAUL COLLIER and JEAN-LOUIS WARNHOLZ

IN an astonishing outpouring of generosity, nearly half of American households have donated money to help Haiti recover from the recent earthquake. The United States government and other governments around the world, for their part, have sent thousands of relief workers and have pledged $1 billion so far. But Haitians need something more fundamental than relief from the present situation; they need jobs that they can count on for years ahead. For this, the private business sector is essential. Luckily, business leaders are meeting now in Davos, Switzerland, and Haiti is prominent on their agenda.

Haiti is by far the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, and yet it need not be so, because unexploited economic opportunities abound there. Some of the best mangoes in the world grow in Haiti — though too many of them rot, offshore from the world’s largest market, for want of adequate roads and well-governed ports. Excellent coffee is grown in the Haitian mountains, but much of it is sold informally across the border to coffee producers in the Dominican Republic, who reap most of the profits.

Haiti also has many qualities attractive to tourists: a warm climate; magnificent white-sand beaches and turquoise water; Tortuga, the famous pirate island off the northern coast; and the Citadel, a mountain fortress erected after Haiti’s independence in the early 19th century to fend off colonial powers, now a World Heritage site. Still, it is one of the least visited places in the Caribbean.

The Hope II trade pact with the United States, signed in 2008, granted Haiti duty-free access to the American apparel market for the next decade. Already, as a result of the deal, many garment factories situated along Haiti’s eastern border (so as to use Dominican electricity and ports) have become profitable and competitive with Chinese garment makers. But light manufacturing could be much bigger in Haiti — if the Haitian government and donors would credibly commit to providing functioning roads, electrical grids and ports, and if outside private capital would invest, patiently, in Haitian businesses.

Poverty and a history of coups and trade embargoes have pushed Haiti’s reputation as a place to do business to near the bottom of the global pile, alongside countries like Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq. But Haiti is far safer and offers far more market opportunities than those conflict-ridden nations.

The obvious difficulty in Haiti is that its economic center, Port-au-Prince, is now in shambles. Private investors are naturally wary of jumping into a market too soon, before it is lively enough to provide certain kinds of support. After all, many businesses can be profitable only if other businesses exist alongside them. Ships don’t sail directly from Haiti to Florida because there aren’t enough goods to warrant dedicated routes. In the meantime, without reliable routes for direct export of goods, investment in production in Haiti is stymied.

Even within a single manufacturing sector, it helps to have many businesses operating together. Garment factories, for example, cluster together, because they share a common need for support services. In Haiti, the cluster of garment makers has been too small even to keep repair shops in business; it can take weeks to fly in a technician to fix a broken sewing machine. So, production costs are high because there are too few investors, and there are too few investors because costs are so high.

The way to address this chicken-and-egg problem is for individual private investors to coordinate with one another. This would not be a new strategy; in the 19th century, the American West was developed not as a process of gradual diffusion but in spasms of local investment booms, financed by enthusiastic outsiders. The earthquake could usher in such a boom in Haiti.

The World Economic Forum in Davos provides an opportunity for businesses that might invest in Haiti — international fashion brands, hotels and coffee chains, for example — to coordinate with companies that provide logistics and markets, so that together they could make mutual commitments. The foundation for such coordination has already been laid — by Bill Clinton, who led 200 international investors to Haiti last October. As a result of this effort, international chains like Best Western and Choice Hotels started building new hotels in Haiti.

The earthquake has, of course, changed opportunities in Haiti, but it has not necessarily reduced them. The American construction industry is mired in deep recession and so has the excess capacity to meet Haiti’s sudden need for low-cost housing, roads, bridges and other structures. If American construction firms can harness Haitian labor to reconstruct (safer) homes, then the challenge will be to lure other businesses in their wake so that temporary jobs in reconstruction are replaced by long-term jobs in manufacturing, agriculture and tourism.

In meeting this challenge, banks and private venture capital also have an important role to play. Haiti needs generous venture capital that encourages some firms to move in first. George Soros, the investor and philanthropist, has recognized this need by committing $25 million for smart investments that catalyze Haiti’s competitive advantages. Many more such commitments are needed.

For now, even public sources of risk capital like the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation and Britain’s Commonwealth Development Corporation have no special provision for the kind of coordinated pump-priming investment that’s required in Haiti. Most public capital goes to emerging market economies where private investment no longer needs to be encouraged. Haiti, with its genuine opportunities and immediate needs, provides a chance for public finance organizations to find new relevance. It is also a chance for private business to show it can take a major role in meeting the gravest human needs.

Paul Collier, an economics professor at Oxford, was a special adviser on Haiti to the United Nations secretary general in 2009. Jean-Louis Warnholz, the managing director of a business consulting company, was an economic adviser to Haiti’s prime minister in 2009.

Clinton Global Initiative:The Challenge for Haitian Higher Education

The Challenge for Haitian Higher Education
Author: Louis Herns Marcelin
Source: Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development (INURED)
Date: March 2010

http://inured.org/docs/TheChallengeforHaitianHigherEd_INURED2010March.pdf

Clinton Global Initiative: Haiti, the earthquake, and my family: newyorker.com

A Little While
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Source: The New Yorker
Date: February 1, 2010

Haiti, the earthquake, and my family: newyorker.com

Clinton Global Initiative University 2010 Closing Plenary: Moving Forward in Haiti

Clinton Global Initiative University 2010 Closing Plenary: Moving Forward in Haiti

Michele Norris will host a conversation with President Clinton and other guests on the recovery and reconstruction efforts underway in Haiti, and how students and the university community can get involved.

http://www.cgiu.org/multimedia/webcasts/2010/#watch

Media Blind to Cuba's Haiti Effort

At the recent UN Donor Conference on Haiti, Cuba announced a programme to rebuild that country’s entire national health service. Although this was, arguably, the most ambitious and impressive ’pledge’ of the 59 governments, regional blocs and financial institutions that made commitments, it was largely ignored by the leading US media-and hence overlooked by most of the world.

The Cuban programme, which is based on the highly effective system developed in that country, embraces primary, secondary and tertiary health care, and medical training. Some of the highlights of the Cuban plan are:

-Setting up of 101 clinics at the primary level with the capacity to treat 2.8 million patients annually, perform 1.3 million emergency operations, deliver 168,000 babies and provide three million vaccinations

-Setting up of 30 community hospitals at the secondary level capable of treating 2.1 million patients annually; provision of one million emergency surgeries, 54,000 operations, 276,000 electro-cardiograms, 107,000 dental exams, 144,000 diagnostic ultrasounds, and 487,000 laboratory tests. Poly-traumatised patients will be served by the 30 rehabilitation rooms and up to 2.4 million therapeutic treatments for 520,000 patients made available

-Setting up of a tertiary-level specialties hospital level staffed by 80 Cuban specialist doctors; with various clinical departments, to be used for research, teaching and training of Haitians to replace the Cubans.

-Provision of 312 additional medical scholarships for Haitians to study in Cuba.

The Cuban programme is not merely a pledge, but a development of medical assistance provided since 1999, dramatically increased since the earthquake. The Cuban medical brigade in Haiti has a presence in 127 of the 137 communes, saved 223,442 lives, treated 14 million people, performed 225,000 operations and delivered 109,000 babies. Since the earthquake, 23 of the primary care health centres, 15 community reference hospitals and 21 rehabilitation rooms have been put in operation.

The cost of the Cuban programme over ten-year period is estimated at US$690.5 million.

Cuba’s contribution, in relation to its GDP, is 152 times that of the United States, which pledged US$1.15 billion. France pledged US$188.93 million, Germany US$53.17 million, Japan US$75 million, and Canada US$375.23 million. Italy and the UK were probably included in the US$203.19 million pledge by ’EU Remaining’ group of countries.

In absolute terms the value of Cuba’s contribution is almost four times that of France, 12 times that of Germany, and almost twice that of Canada. Excluding the US, it exceeds the rest of the G7 countries combined and that of the World Bank (US$479 million) by 35 per cent.

While other countries are pledging money, Cuba is actively creating an entire sustainable health care system which will treat 75 per cent of the Haitian population, and save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Analysis of the coverage of the Conference by five major US media-CNN, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and the Miami Herald-revealed that, of 38 posts recorded in the ten days immediately following the Conference, only one (the Miami Herald) mentioned the Cuban contribution.

A search of the first 50 results in Google News for ’United Nations Haiti Donor Conference’ produced only two articles that mentioned Cuba’s role.

The main theme of these articles was the importance of the US role in helping Haiti. The US effort was often described as being equally or more important than that of the UN. Thus one stated, ’The biggest contributions came from the United States and the European Union’-which is not even true, given that Venezuela pledged US$2.4 billion. The United States consistently headed the list of contributing countries.

There is a dramatic contrast between this ’cover-up’ and the attention given on alleged human rights abuses in Cuba. Dozens of articles have appeared in recent weeks focusing on the death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a jailed ’dissident’ with a criminal record who had refused food for 80 days, and the hunger strike of Guillermo Farinas.

In preference to reporting on a Cuban programme which will improve the lives of 75 per cent of Haiti’s population of nine million, these media have highlighted the US role in Haiti. In their Cuban coverage, they have chosen to focus on the cases of two men who have deliberately decided to embark on a suicidal course, presented as martyrs, with the obvious aim of embarrassing the Cuban Government. Selective commendation in one case; selective indignation in the other.

We are supposed to believe, however, that these media are ’free’ and ’unbiased’. Unfortunately, much of the rest of the world’s media take their cue from this kind of selective reporting. This needs to change.

Norman Girvan is Professorial Research Fellow at the UWI Graduate Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies

Emily J Kirk of Cambridge University and John M Kirk of Dalhousie University

Article is found here: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_opinion?id=161637911

MTV: Radyo Pa Nou- assisting local Haitians to locate loved ones

"Celebrity outreach to Haiti may be dominating the headlines, but everyday heroes truly do exist in the wake of the calamity caused by the earthquake that crippled the country...."

Read the rest of this article and see video clip of vice-president of Brooklyn-based Radyo Pa Nou. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1629874/20100115/story.jhtml

MTV Shows

CNN Newsroom: Relief to Haiti... aired 1/13/2010

This transcript is from a larger story that CNN aired 1 day after the earthquake in Haiti. I pulled out the interview with Ricot Dupuy- the manager of the Brooklyn-run radio station: Radio Soleil. The rest of the transcript is at the bottom of this post.

WHITFIELD: Haiti's humanitarian crisis on the minds of many in New York City and in our nation's capital. Both areas filled with Haitian-Americans. From our D.C. studios, Arielle Jean Batiste, who used to work for USAID. Her daughter just got out of Haiti last week and Arielle herself was just in Haiti last month closing on her home there. And in New York City, Ricot Dupuy. He is the station manager for Radio Soleil, a Haitian flavored broadcast out of Brooklyn.

Good to see both of you all. I know both of you have been trying frantically to reach loved ones there in Haiti. It's been very difficult. You've got your own personal stories about what it's been like. So, Rico, let me begin with you, because here you are on the air, you're hearing from you -- you're hearing from listeners and callers who are sobbing about trying to reach out to their family members and you're dealing with the same kind of struggle. How do you keep it together during all this?

RICOT DUPUY, STATION MANAGER, RADIO SOLEIL: It is -- it is difficult and it's very frustrating at times because the people are asking for information that you have difficulty providing because basically they're asking you to put them in touch with loved ones, people they're trying to locate. And, you know, it has to be difficult . . .

WHITFIELD: And, of course, that has to be pretty frustrating -- right, very frustrating for you because you really can't do that.

DUPUY: Absolutely. We -- it's very difficult and we -- some people have the technological means of doing that. So basically all we can do, we give them an opportunity where they identify the loved ones, they're trying to identify to locate in Haiti. They give their names, a telephone number, hoping that somebody who hear the message would somehow connect with their loved one in Haiti and that their loved one would somehow connect back to them because they're really desperate. They need to make connection.

WHITFIELD: So, Arielle, this is an incredible network that has been under way. Thank goodness for social networking for you, too. You were able to find out about friends and loved ones. You're still wanting to hear about how your uncles are doing and some other friends. Give me an idea of how this morning you were able to get an update on loved ones by way of social networking. How did it work for you?

ARIELLE JEAN BATISTE, WORKED IN HAITI FOR YEARS AS REP. FOR USAID: This morning around 4:15, 5:00, I got up and got online and I saw two people in Haiti online and spoke to them. They couldn't tell me what the situation was because it was dark when it happened yesterday, but they told me that their families were fine.

However, this morning, with my daughter, we were able, on FaceBook, to circulate the information. We found out about, unfortunately, about certain deaths. My friend -- my son lost one of his friends. My -- another friend lost her mother. And two of my friends are unable to locate their mothers.

So just before I came to this interview, I got online and I saw someone, but unfortunately I haven't had time to talk to him. And I will get back and try to find out more information and see if I can connect some of these people with their parents.

WHITFIELD: And, you know, Ricot, this is terribly sad because while people are still trying to hear from loved ones, at the same time they are, in some cases, hearing the worst, as Arielle was just mentioning. Not a mention of people being injured, but instead it's one extreme to the other. It's either you're alive or you're dead. Is that what you're hearing from your listeners? And is that what you're experiencing as well?

DUPUY: Well, one situation that I see, it's a tendency to panic, to sometimes even exaggerate. Let me give you a clear example. A number of people are calling their loved ones in Haiti. The phone would ring, but there would be nobody at the end. And automatically they assume the worst, that the people have been killed or severely damaged when, in fact, people are being advised not to stay in homes, but to stay, rather, in the open because a home is a very dangerous place to be in Haiti right now because of aftershocks and other. In my own case, it took me some 15 hours to find out, to determine that my -- yes.

WHITFIELD: Go ahead. I can hear you. It took you 15 hours.

DUPUY: Yes. It took some 15 hours to find out that my aunts, my cousins, whom I love very, very much, were OK because the phone rang, nobody picked up. I was tempted also to assume the worst and finally I find out that they're OK.

WHITFIELD: Well, this is very agonizing, we understand, for you, Ricot Dupuy, as well as Arielle Jean Batiste. And we thank you so much for your time and we wish you all the best as you continue to reach out to your loved ones and your friends and family there. And, of course, we've got our prayers out for you and all of them.

BATISTE: Thank you. Thank you, Fredricka. Thank you.

WHITFIELD: Thanks so much for your time. Appreciate that.

BATISTE: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: So the earthquake in Haiti is certainly the worst to hit that country in two centuries. We'll take a look now at the fault lines.

COMMERCIAL BREAK)

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/13/cnr.06.html

Outline of things to Cover

Some quick thoughts about things we might include in our 'paper'

Blogs (analyze, write, compare chile, china) about the earthquake
Analysis and comparison between Fox and MSNBC (Media Matters
Also: when coverage started, and when it went away (how many minutes per day? - change in nature of coverage - disaster coverage, relief efforts, celebrities, children, curruption, feel good stories, etc - how were these stories linked to US interest (Tsunami in Hawaii - Chile Quake)(Earthquake Preparedness stories in California)(Americans helping others, as in the Darfur stories - or the Red Campaign - re easier than political involvement)
Think Global, Act Local
Explore power of local - in global: primary source of information? technology? new media and social networks? how does it inform the future?
Create pod-cast (with still photos of Bklyn)
Record music (any original songs written?)




Link to NYT story about networks pulling out Jan 25 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/business/media/25coverage.html?pagewanted=print



A Brief History of Haiti in Haiti
Origins
Slavery
Disasters
Poverty
Emigration to America
A Brief History of Haiti in America
A Brief History of Haiti in Brooklyn

A Brief History of Radio Soleil

Sights and Sounds of Haiti in Haiti
Sights and Sounds of Haiti in Brooklyn
Children
Music
Street Sounds
Schools
Church

The Earthquake
First Notice
who/how?
First Media
in Haiti before First Responders
News Coverage as:
Disaster Story
Rescue Story
Human Interest Story
No Longer a Story
Mass Media
Networks
Cable
Internet
Cell Phone

Documentary:
“Everything is Local”
Interviews about Earthquake
Radio Station Program Manager
News Announcers, Talk Show Hosts, and DJs
Clergy
Teachers
Police
People on the Street
Stock/TV Footage
Pre-Earthquake Footage
Earthquake News Coverage
Scenes to Shoot
Radio Station
Personnel
At the Station
On the Street
At Home
Community
Individual Stories
Street Scenes
School Yard
Sunday Church

Haiti Overview

This BBC article discusses the historical background of Haiti and provides additional context on the country's profile. The media section names Radio as being, "Haiti's most important information medium" and the radio stations are listed with links to their websites. (Other forms of media: TV, Newspapers, are also listed).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/country_profiles/1202772.stm