I posted 12.14 & 12.18 (there's obviously a word limit!): When Ms. Pearson & Ms. Nelson interviewed Mrs Karb, the tourist who said she thought she would encounter people taking collections, did they, the journalists, pursue this further? Did they ask at the reception desk what the arrangements were for people wanting to donate? Or did they ask Mrs. Karb if she had done this?
I just wondered how much what appears to be 'indignation' translates into taking corrective action?
Ms Pearson & Ms Nelson missed a great opportunity. They could have come & visited me (I live 5 mins drive from Playa Dorada) and I would have told them about the magnificent response to the Haiti tragedy by the Dominican government & the Dominican people. And......I'm not that hard to find in Puerto Plata. But perhaps the journalists were too busy to leave the all inclusive hotel and get into the town and find some real residents, Dominican or expat, who could have helped them add balance to their story and flesh it out a bit?
And if they DID want to focus solely on tourist guilt, could they have done a little research and offered psychological explanations as to why this might be? Too much like hard work? Might get in the way of 'rum, rum, rum -no ice'?
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