The citizen scoop on Haiti

By Quid Nunc on January 26, 2010 9:33 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Category: Haiti

60 Minutes - CBS News.png Five days after the earthquake in Haiti, the enormity of the bare numbers seems too much to comprehend. Some 140,000 lie dead -- tens of thousands of bodies are still entombed beneath the rubble. And an ever-dwindling handful of survivors lie with them, trapped alive, awaiting either rescue or death.

In Port-Au-Prince, 300,000 citizens have no home but the streets. More than three-and-a-half million Haitians, according to the Red Cross, find their lives turned inside out by the quake and its aftermath.

Since last Tuesday, when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti left thousands dead and its capital city in ruins, NewsTrust, a non profit news service that provides review tools to help people consume and critique news has searched for the most reliable journalism about this tragic event and the humanitarian response that followed. You can see the results on its Haiti topic page.

A deluge of news, analysis and opinion continues to pour from Haiti, where news organizations around the world have sent correspondents to cover all aspects of the disaster.

Here are some of top rated stories about Haiti this week as selected by NewsTrust's citizen reviewers:

News

• The Tragedy of Haiti - 60 Minutes, CBS News

• Breaking the supply logjam - Time

• 'America must treat carefully in Haiti' - Der Spiegel

• Ghosts of Port-au-Prince - Foreign Policy

• In earthquake-ravaged Haiti, daunting challenges hobble relief efforts - Washington Post

• Still no sign of aid in city center - The Times

• A race against time for aid in Haiti - NPR

Opinion

• Fault is not a sin - Slate

• The underlying tragedy - New York Times

• Suffering - New Yorker

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- Most recent stories on Haiti

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