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U.S.-focused Sandy coverage indicative of media ethnocentricity

Look, I’m from South Jersey. I understand that the storm has been devastating to a ton of people all along the East Coast. But if I were to take most media coverage at face value, that’s just about the ONLY places I’d know have been hit.

While media coverage has harped on those affected in the U.S. including blackouts in lower Manhattan and blown away boardwalks in Atlantic City (all terrible products of the storm), in fact,  that the storm has killed at least 69 people thus far in Caribbean countries, including Cuba and Haiti. The storm also hit the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. According to the AP, Sandy hit Haiti hard, killing over 50 people and compounding ...

Look, I’m from South Jersey. I understand that the storm has been devastating to a ton of people all along the East Coast. But if I were to take most media coverage at face value, that’s just ...