CNN: Do You Have a Picture of the Pain ?

Even I had to turn off the TV yesterday when CNN repeatedly showed pictures of an eleven year old girl trapped in the rubble in Haiti.

Newsday’s Verne Gay wrote: “If any individual story set the tone – and established a threshold of horror – for TV’s coverage of the Haitian disaster, it may have been one by CNN’s Ivan Watson Thursday afternoon. Reporting the rescue effort of an 11-year-old girl trapped in the rubble, her cries of agony clearly audible, he paused and suggested that even his own network might want to bail out at that point: A man had just pulled the body part of a person who was right next to the girl.”

Just because we have anchors and BGANs and Skype doesn’t mean that we have to show all of the horror that is this quake.