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how is the Tsunami story being reported in COL?

Is it major story like here in the US? or is it like any other stories? What is the word on the street? In the US, you can't help but talk about it and there's a huge push for donations for all sides. I'm would think that the story gets airtime, but it's not a major story because COL is so far away and has little or no political or economic interest in those regions. BTW, i ask this to get observation from people living in COL now, i'm not trying to start a debate on if COL should or should not do more or less reporting.

By caslug on Jan 4, 2005, 18:01 in Friendly Talkzone.

Whipstatic says on Jan 4, 2005, 18:10:

What do you think man
Apply a little common sense.....yes, that's it, they do report it heavily on the news. A lot of folks die in Colombia but not at the 150000 a day rate, someday maybe but still the tsunami is pretty strong news material.

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Miguel says on Jan 4, 2005, 22:18:

caslug It has been front page news in the Colombian press, daily.

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Bruce V. Shrader says on Jan 5, 2005, 02:25:

tsunami story you can access two colombain newspapers on line,

El Pais.com - a Cali newspaper
and
EL Tiempo.com - a Bogota news paper

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Atrevido says on Jan 5, 2005, 04:01:

When it was first reported on television news here there was speculation that it was caused by a meteore and they showed footage from the movie showing a digitized wave washing over New York, can't remember the title.

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caslug says on Jan 5, 2005, 10:43:

i was curious to see the difference in media.. coverage & perception between what we(US) get here and the outside the US. It was mention that floods in Banglahdesh a few years backed killed more than 140,000 people, but it was hardly a major news story in the US. Certainly didn't get the kind of coverage you see w/ this story. I chalk that up to the media being very US centric vs world centric. But, the coverage that US media is giving about the Tsunami is the same intense coverage that the media gave for 9/11.

Any big stories on how COL was affect, loss of life or business(from importer/export), etc.,? Here in the states, the media is taking a more world view(world catastrophe vs dwelling on american lives loss, which fortunately was very small number.

I remember watching, reading news outside the US during my travel and it's a slightly different spin than what we get in the US.

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Lionheart says on Jan 5, 2005, 14:54:

caslug If you read recent articles about the tsunami like the ones I read last night, then you would understand why the USA coverage is much better this time:

According to Powell the US military presence in Asia can now be seen as benificiaries to people of all religions, especially the muslims. Also the new ties formed with Indonesian military leaders will provide for long-term support and cooperation in their region. On and on and on ....

Sorry, I almost barfed ...

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kernow62 says on Jan 5, 2005, 18:32:

I did notice a lot of mosques that were standing when all around was flattened. A US military man, an officer said that perhaps God was trying to tell us something. Hmmm?

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stanmoonie says on Jan 6, 2005, 10:21:

mosques like churches here are build to last, of course did you watch a couple of days ago where the locals were trying to take gas out of a boat and it caught fire along with the mosque next to it...

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