Spoiler alert: you will need a hanky
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A Disaster We Can't Unsee
It has become a cliché by now to declare that any awful event is “the first YouTube disaster,” “the coming of age of Twitter,” “the desktop-video tragedy,” &c. But clichés are sometimes true, and the endless supply of videos coming from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have had an overwhelming, end of days feel to them.
Unlike a …
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Quake/Tsunami Takes Over TV News (Mostly), Will Test Foreign Depth
TV news and social media snapped to attention early this morning (U.S. time) as news came of a 8.9 earthquake that hit off the coast of northern Japan and the tsunami that caused massive devastation and rolled across the Pacific.
As I write, most news and broadcast networks are wall-to-wall in coverage—as well as The Weather …
