Dangers of reporting on Myanmar's cyclone

“Their reporting often uncovers previously undiscovered areas of need, and they help keep the international community of donors informed of conditions on the ground.”

'I can't talk now, I think I'm in danger,' a reporter in Myanmar whispered into the phone. Click.

Phones are tapped and the few foreign journalists inside Myanmar are operating in secret, making it dangerous and difficult to tell the story of the cyclone that has devastated the Southeast Asian country.

Covering catastrophes always carries risk in impoverished countries where disasters can cause shortages of food, clean water, outbreaks of disease and staggering death tolls. But the challenges are multiplied in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, where the reclusive and notoriously brutal military regime does not want details of the suffering to leak out. Read more

[Kev-0]

Whatever it takes to prevent the Democratic machine from overthrowing their current regime.

Pretty extreme, but effective nevertheless.

[scout]

The problem is the decadent Western culture itself. The Western reporters view the world through the dark glasses of paganism, a philosophy of nonsense currently known as communism AND Nazism. Of course, they call the above 'progress' and 'peace keepers.'

The above frames the problem, but this leads to the personality quirk: pure arrogance, the very stuff of Satan himself, the father of Western philosophy that is as ancient as Lucifer. And we call our nonsense progress.

[zeke]

Western people don't understand their ways, so its best to stay out of their business they can handle it.

[Kev-0]

scout wrote:

The problem is the decadent Western culture itself. The Western reporters view the world through the dark glasses of paganism, a philosophy of nonsense currently known as communism AND Nazism. Of course, they call the above 'progress' and 'peace keepers.'
The above frames the problem, but this leads to the personality quirk: pure arrogance, the very stuff of Satan himself, the father of Western philosophy that is as ancient as Lucifer. And we call our nonsense progress.

so go join them over there.

[Kev-0]

zeke wrote:

Western people don't understand their ways, so its best to stay out of their business they can handle it.

one does not need to understand another to offer assistance.