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The earthquake on the 13,000-foot Tibetan plateau in remote southwestern China was, obviously, so far away from any network correspondent that all they could do was narrate videotape from remote locations. CBS gave the task to Lucy Craft in Tokyo; ABC to Clarissa Ward in Beijing; NBC had Brian Williams handle the chores from the anchor desk. Bereft of facts from Qinghai Province, both Craft and Ward resorted to analogies. Ward found "stories reminiscent of China's 2008 earthquake, which killed more than 80K people, including thousands of children in poorly constructed schools." Craft found the scene "chillingly reminiscent of the horrific earthquake of 2008, when 87K in Sichuan, a neighboring province, which sits on the same fault line."
Andrew Tyndall 4/15/10 10:41:28 pm

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