The devastation in Haiti is utterly heart breaking to witness. Our remarkable ability as a techno-savvy country allows us immediate images and testimony, painting a canvas of color and sound and blood and misery. Click back in your memory 5 years at a time: No Smartphones or Twitter, no blogs or streaming video, no news websites, no real internet, no news dedicated TV. Think 6 o'clock network broadcasts. Tomorrow's newspaper. Weekly magazines. Radio....
I have looked into the eyes of a boy, maybe 10 years old, gesturing towards the cameraman, "please help me, get this chunk of building off my leg". I have seen him 10 times, 20 times, his eyes crawling into my brain and heart, burning somehow into my deepest place.
To my media blog readers: we should never have to pay for news. Whether you are watching on a small TV in your kitchen, or you are looking at a super-duper slab of goog-azon screen, the world should unfold before us with blood or beauty, neither Murdoch nor Microsoft standing in the way of truth.
If you want a particular opinion or view, a twist or turn, from seer or soothsayer... you should be willing to pay.
To my politics readers: Damn, I am PROUD of America today. No country or people reaches out faster better stronger than we do. The United States of America is at its finest when a broken people in a broken country need help. No collateral damage, no Blackwater, and no damned Drones. Just generous people who care
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