Time and Tide







"Um.  I don't," I wittily rejoined.  

4 Responses so far.

  1. Annie says:

    I was thinking this morning as I listened to the accounts on the radio of BBC reporters trying to get into the area just the right side of the evacuation zone around the damaged nuclear power plants as everyone was else was trying to come the other way, that we ask an awful lot of the people who bring us the news we crave. I'm really glad D is safe and very thankful that the tsunami's going east across the Pacific don't seem to have been as severe as was first thought. People don't think of the UK as prime earthquake territory but we do have some and I live on a fault that throws up a 5.0 every now and again. They do very little damage, but at least it does mean that I have some idea of how terrifying a larger one might be. We ignore nature at our peril.

  2. I agree, Annie. And there seems to be a strain of cynicism in our thinking about what journalists do (in academic circles at least). In my mind, it isn't so much that there aren't ambulance-chasing journalists out there whose coverage is exploitative, as that there ARE a lot of front-line journalists who are willing to take incredible risks because their idealistic commitment to the cause of knowledge and international, intercultural understanding makes them courageous. I think we tend to forget that.

  3. Emilie says:

    As soon as I heard it might hit Hawai'i, I instantly worried about D. Luckily, he had already posted that he was safe on FB. Quick on the draw, that one.

  4. He's a fast one, he is. (It looks like it might have been more severe in So Cal than in Oahu, in a way.)

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