{"id":2303,"date":"2010-01-19T08:27:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T12:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2010-01-19T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T16:04:57","slug":"haiti-slum-district-hit-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2303","title":{"rendered":"Haiti slum district hit hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KWFCSNW0FXY&amp;hl=en&amp;showsearch=0&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KWFCSNW0FXY&amp;hl=en&amp;showsearch=0&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><big><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2010\/01\/18-5\">Please Don&#8217;t Superdome Haiti<\/a><\/b><\/big> by Michelle Chen<br \/>\nFor those who know how race and media intersect in times of crisis, the earthquake in Haiti has probably sent a bump through your pop-cultural seismograph. Now it&#8217;s becoming a flashpoint.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFollowing an initial wave of sympathy, the corporate media has turned an alarmed eye to the increasingly desperate masses. We see unruly mobs, bodies piled in the streets (we hear of corpses being used as human &#8220;barricades&#8221;). The insinuations and direct reporting of violence flirt with the popular imagination and evoke memories of America&#8217;s most spectacular prime-time tragedy-Katrina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please Don&#8217;t Superdome Haiti by Michelle Chen For those who know how race and media intersect in times of crisis, the earthquake in Haiti has probably sent a bump through your pop-cultural seismograph. Now it&#8217;s becoming a flashpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,268,5],"tags":[265,264,262,113,1026],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-haiti-caribbean","category-international","tag-aid","tag-disaster","tag-earthquake","tag-haiti","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}