- 'Haiti and its Canadian Media Presentation': Analysis of a Maclean's magazine cover story on Haiti ("Horror in Haiti"). [Pacific Free Press]
- 'Building a new Haiti': "News reports still insist on the question of security, as if the pressing problem were the need to maintain public order. This argument has been used to justify placing Haitian society under the direct control of the US military...The assumption of control over the airport and the naval blockade around the island's coasts are, by any definition, acts of occupation...It seems very clear that the US government is controlling Haiti to ensure that its own interests are paramount in the rebuilding process. " [The Guardian]
- Don't forget to tune in to Flashpoints. This week included continuing reports from Pina on the ground, Laura Flynn, and Walter Riley.
- 'Sowing Panic on the Streets of Haiti' [TheHaitianBlogger]
- 'U.S. Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancellation': ""This weekend the G7 finance ministers must respond to the mounting global consensus to drop Haiti's debt," she said. "It's time our leaders announced their commitment to cancel Haiti's debts once and for all, including the new IMF loan. Debt cancellation is a critical step in the long road to Haiti's recovery." [IPS]
- 'Haiti, Still Starving 23 Days Later': "You can walk down many of the streets of Port au Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world community has helped Haiti. Twenty three days after the earthquake jolted Haiti and killed over 200,000 people, as many as a million people have still not received any international food assistance. [Counterpunch]
- Four part Real News piece, 'Haitians will Defend Their Sovereignty' with Ronald Charles [Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4]
- Latest from Ansel Herz, 'High energy biscuits get mixed reviews in Haiti's Cite Soleil slum' reporting for Reuters. [Note: Herz tweets today: "Reuters editor added lines about gang control of Cite Soleil to my short story about WFP biscuits in #haiti slum." Believe it or not, we were going to speculate on this yesterday; alas...]
- 'Haitian Quake Brings More Money and Scrutiny to [Wyclef's] Charity'[NYT]
- A must read from the archives: Isabel Macdonald's, ""Parachute Journalism" in Haiti: Media Sourcing in the 2003-2004 Political Crisis": "The Canadian media’s reliance on parachute and wire agency journalist sduring the lead-up to the 2004 coup d’état in Haiti exemplified the trends associated with recent cuts to foreign news. A content analysis of the Globe and Mail, plus interviews with journalists, reveal that the deadline pressures and hotel journalism associated with these trends contributed, in the absence of coherent official messages on the Haiti crisis, to journalists’ reliance on sources from a U.S. and Canadian government–supported political movement spearheaded by Haiti’s business and media elite that sought to overthrow the democratically elected Haitian government." [Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 33, No 2 (2008)(.pdf)]