Playing shake, rattle & roll ..

Doubtlessly a comment as unsavoury as it is untimely, but the Haitians must still be quaking in their boots over yesterday's tremors.I wonder though of the general relevance of international disaster & accident presentation at a local audience level.

 Is information weighted as "news" simply because video footage is available to fill television airtime? The medium shapes the media message, in effect.

So you & I see dead people.