Amongst newspapers, the saying has always been that a good picture is worth a thousand words. Look through today's Journal. Look at the space devoted to pictures. Note the composition of the pictures. They are professional, not happy snaps.
People are interested in people.
Technology can bring disasters directly to people's homes. But the recent hurricane which battered the Bahamas wasn't news until it came within reach of CNN in Florida. Perhaps even before they start flying in tents and medicines, the aid agencies should be getting a digital camera linked via a satellite mobile phone to the net and beam back human-interest images. That way they'll get the world's attention and the financial help the homeless of Bengal so desperately need. The anniversary was the chance for the media to revisit the story yet again, this time focusing on the compensation.