Account by CNN Reporter Cooper... from rappler/move-ph/issues/disasters/typhoon-yolanda/43544-global-media-coverage-haiyan-philippines SUPER TYPHOON YOLANDA (HAIYAN) World media in PH; Cooper slams slow Haiyan response BY AYEE MACARAIG POSTED ON 11/12/2013 7:08 PM | UPDATED 11/13/2013 4:20 PM EXTENSIVE COVERAGE. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper reports on Haiyan live from an airport in Manila and tosses to Anna Coren on the latest relief efforts in Cebu. Screengrab from CNN MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – “It’s as if CNN turned into a local channel.” Social media-savvy Filipinos could not help but comment on the international news channel’s wall-to-wall coverage of the devastation Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) wrought on central Philippines. The world’s biggest typhoon easily became one of the biggest stories of the year, with top global journalists and media organizations showing audiences from all over the globe heart-wrenching images of a disaster whose magnitude was unprecedented in Philippine history. On the fifth day after the disaster, CNNs Anderson Cooper called out the Philippine government for the slow relief effort, saying it was unclear who is in charge. He described the condition in Tacloban City as a miserable, miserable situation. Tacloban is among the areas that bore the brunt of the typhoon. “It is a very desperate situation, among the most desperate I’ve seen in covering disasters over the last couple of years, Cooper said while reporting live from Tacloban on Wednesday, November 13. “You would expect perhaps to see a feeding center that had been set up 5 days after the storm. We haven’t seen that, certainly not in this area. Some food is being brought to people here at the airport, some water being distributed but these are very, very difficult conditions for the people here on the ground and it’s not clear how much longer it can continue like this. Something’s got to give. In 2005, Cooper also took US officials to task over the response to Hurricane Katrina. This time, he said Filipino victims are desperate. Cooper added, Certainly, US military personnel are here on the ground. There’s a group of marines here, they’ve set up operation. They’ve checked out the airport. That is underway and that cannot come soon enough. But as for who exactly is in charge of the Philippine side of this operation, that is not really clear. I’m just surprised. I expected on this day 5, I thought I’ve maybe gotten here very late, that things would be well in hand. It does not seem like that. A journalist who has covered major disasters and conflicts, Cooper compared the Philippines response to Haiyan to that of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. “When I was in Japan, right after the tsunami there two years ago, within a day or two, you had Japanese defense forces going out, carving up cities into grids and going out on foot looking for people, walking through the wreckage. We have not seen that here in any kind of large-scale operation.” read through by clicking the URL above...
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