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At some point, you begin to feel like a voyeur. [1]

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Date: 2023-02-09  

Initially, voyeur referred to someone who derived sexual pleasure from watching others undress or engage in intimate acts; it was synonymous with Peeping Tom. By the middle of the 20th century, its meaning had broadened to "an unduly prying observer," particularly one interested in squalid or shocking details:

I was watching the news, which obviously centred around the recent horrifying earthquake in Syria and Turkey, the camera then centred upon a woman in the depths of an inconsolable grief after losing her child. I began to cry, the camera lingered for what seemed like forever, and the reporter waffled on [I’d stopped listening], I had to turn off.

My point is this, focusing on someone in the moment of her absolute loss possibly makes for hard hitting news, but it leaves the viewer feeling voyeuristic and asking themselves, was it really necessary to linger so long?

This was on our main news channel, social media driven by its normal shock searching algorithms must be abhorrent. [Grief is an intensely personal thing].

How much do we have to see before we actually act, how many times do we have to scroll down the information until we are satisfied that it is tragic enough to register?

Our usual charities are involved, the professionals are the best equipped.

www.msf.org/…

www.unicef.fr

Geopolitics be damned: After the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, international aid is guided by geopolitics.

As for the blame game with respect to the appalling numbers due to defective building regulation enforcement, that too can wait.

I need to know what can we do to help, rather than to satisfy what at best could be termed as curiosity.

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