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Every square metre of Haiti has a foreign news crew crawling all over it. Every injured person who is lying in the road, about to give birth in the road, being taken to hospital, mourning their deceased relative outside a building, etc, has a camera shoved in their face. There are news crews from hundreds of countries there, all covering this as their top story on their networks back home. The camera crews in Haiti are doing to these sad people what the paparazzi do to Britney Spears when she walks down the street in Los Angeles. This seems wrong and would be very annoying to the people there, considering what has happened to them. What do other people think?

Unfortunately news is now big business, and being first with the news is so important to each news organization.

When I sometimes watch the 24 hours new on Sky News or the BBC News you can see they are bored having to say the same news over and over again all day.

Then they get all excited "Some great news, a dead body has been found by the river in xxxx town. Lets go to our reporter on the spot".

Or worse they get exited about a train crash in some obscure part of India where 20 people have died.

And I think "do I care". Does it alter my life in any way to know that 20 people have died in India.

Not being callous but years ago most people only knew what was going on in their street and that was about it.

Nowadays we know about every accident and disaster anywhere in the world, and I dont think we are any better off for it. It just makes us more depressed.

I think things that are big and bad need to be covered internationally, but everything about Haiti has already been said in the last 7 or 8 days so the networks are continually looking for a new approach. They go up to people in the street and ask them what happened to them. The people then spend ages talking about it, then the next news crew arrives and asks them the same thing. People who should either be helped by passers-by or should be left alone if they can manage to get their reliative to hospital or whatever unassisted, should not be hindered in doing so. It must be weird to be so concerned about your relatives, neighbours, yourself, and your nation, yet have to be interviewed by 30 or 40 news teams a day, and have to walk around them when you are trying to get into the ruins or your old house.

i watched a clip last night on BBC news where a woman was giving birth in the open air and the baby was in the breech position and one of the female medics was crying saying she didnt know what to do.the female reporter was literally 6 feet away while this was going on and all i could think was get out of the way you stupid cow or put the fucking mic down and go and see if you can help