Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Megan Wegan,
The 200 (ish) figure is the people that are missing, and believed to have been somewhere they are likely to have been hurt. The 148 (so far) figure is included in that 200. They've only officially named 8 victims.
Thank you Megan.
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As I've understood the process, the Police aren't putting a body against the fatality count until they've identified the victim and notified next-of-kin. So, kinda by definition, the missing cannot be amongst the dead.
But they've officially identified fewer than ten people, the rest of the recovered bodies must be those of missing persons. Somebody please tell me I'm right about this.
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Okay, I may be tragically confused. I thought that most of the 200 missing would in fact be amongst the 147 recovered bodies, all but a handful of which are as yet unnamed. And that's right, isn't it?
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to andin,
300+ casualties is pretty horrendous.
Without in any way suggesting it's not horrendous, we're looking at a little over 200, aren't we? Are you adding the missing to the bodies that have been recovered?
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Bad word association was entirely unwitting.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to James Butler,
Yes, that was rather unfortunate.
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Hungrymama writes.
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The election is nine months from now. If National gets re-elected in a landslide I'd suggest it's because it has deserved to.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Andrew Stevenson,
But how about if you are a tennant, employee or your children will go to school or creche in one those buildings?
The combined earthquake risk maps will tell you something about your area, if not quite your building. The PDF is online but if you go down to the central library they are much more detailed (and split by tipe of hazardy - subsidence, liquefaction, tsunami).
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
I think Vicki Anderson said she felt physically sick at the sight of people taking photos and decided not to herself.
She did, but then you could argue that writing is also a potentially indelicate act. To follow from what Kate was saying: Anderson was interviewing herself at that moment, but also drawing a picture of the city at a time of intense grief and vulnerability, and that is also fraught. Arguably a photographer is just using a different tool. It's the job of the editor then to select.
And on this last point yes, we are all enormously grateful to Twitter, and to @dyedredlaura's pictures, but we depended entirely on her own filters there, and they could have failed us.