Does anyone know who Fox News have sent to the scene? I watched a clip on youtube and If I recall right Wendel Goler was on holiday in the Santo Dominico when it happened. So i presume he would have been sent?
When I was watching in the states from the moment it broke to Thurs PM - Fox news were diabolical in their coverage.
I think it's a little unfair to say that the coverage on Fox has been diabolical. Although CNN was first to break the story, it was Fox that was first with a report from a correspondent. There's been a lot of criticism leveled at Fox in the last few days, with claims that it put an exclusive interview with Sarah Palin above the news from Haiti. To be fair, there was little that could be done (or discovered) given the time at which the earthquake occurred; the diminishing light would have hampered any attempts to get people into the country and the lack of communications made things extremely difficult.
It should be pointed out, however, that although CNN - and in particular Anderson Cooper - has been praised for its coverage, there is a significant caveat to this; critiques by the
New York Times
,
Washington Post
and the
LA Times
all compared Fox's decision to stay with taped programming on the night of the earthquake with CNN's coverage in the days that followed. Why did these critiques not examine CNN's coverage on the evening it occurred? Because it had no resources in the area and Anderson Cooper - against whose coverage everybody's else's has been compared - was en route to the region. Is it me, or isn't it a little unfair (to say the least) to compare the coverage of one network in the immediate aftermath with that of another a day later, by which time it had mobilised its resources and had an anchor on the ground? Additionally, if you would like an example of diabolical coverage, you should try MSNBC - their coverage has been, and continues to be, a shambles.