As a family struggled to get help during Hurricane Harvey, gaps in the rescue system began to show.
We need to be better advocates for ourselves. Good communication can be a life or death situation.
Tag: emergency response
🎧 “The Daily”: Lost in the Storm, Part 1 | New York Times
Houston’s emergency response systems, crippled by Hurricane Harvey, failed to reach people who needed help the most.
This is going to be a classic implementation of painful miscommunication.
👓 How Not to Report on an Earthquake | New York Times
What I got wrong in Haiti in 2010, and why it matters.
I’m not quite surprised at several of these at all. I am surprised that there are so many that are regularly and poorly reported however. People are too focused on the “story” and the expected narrative to get parts of the reporting right.
🎧 Summer Series Episode 4: Tectonic Edition | WNYC | On The Media
This summer we are revisiting some of our favorite Breaking News Consumer Handbooks. Episode 4 in this mini-series is Tectonic Edition.
After an earthquake struck Nepal in April of 2015, the post-disaster media coverage followed a trajectory we'd seen repeated after other earth-shaking events. We put together a template to help a discerning news consumer look for the real story. It's our Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Tectonic Edition. Brooke spoke to Jonathan M. Katz, who wrote "How Not to Report on an Earthquake" for the New York Times Magazine.
Understanding how news is reported and the good and bad of it can certainly help one be a better consumer of it. This episode was quite enlightening about how disaster reporting is often done wrong.