Follow NBC News Crew in Gonaives on Twitter
by Catherine LaineSeptember 23rd, 2008
Just an FYI: Twitter users Jim Long (@newmediajim) and @NBCnewscrew arrived in Gonaives yesterday to cover the hurricane relief efforts for MSNBC and probably also NBC nightly news.
If you are unfamiliar with Twitter, it is a micro-blogging platform that gives you a strict 140 character limit to say whatever you have to say in a post (aka tweet). It’s not a lot of room to work with but you can still convey a lot. The team landed last night and here are a few things they noted already. If their comments seem brusque, it has more to do with the format than anything else.
From NBCNewsCrew
- @newmediajim and I have arrived in Gonaives, Haiti. We split up to shoot daylight video. Had about an hour before sunset to shoot a story.
- My first impression: wow! The poverty, the mud, the flood water in the streets thats two weeks old… It’s just overwelming!
- We are following the WFP: world food program. These guys are desperately trying to help feed thousands of now homeless Haitians.
- After shooting the faces of these little kids, the innocent smiles, the sunken eyes from hunger… It quite frankly breaks my heart…. :(
- When the sunset over Haiti… everything went dark, No electricity, no lights. Very surreal. You can hear people, just can’t see anything!
From newmediajim
- Greetings from Gonaives, Haiti Twitterland! got in to Gonaives just in time to shoot a couple of elements. abject, pressing poverty
- people lined up to fill buckets filled with water they know isn’t fit to drink but they have no choice.
- despite pitiful conditions, people of Haiti show tremendous courage and will. later we’ll go on a midnight food distribution
- @BartoGirl so far so good. getting a lot done in a short amount of time. in fact. i have to start digitizing tape!
Jim normally works as part of the White House Press Corps [See Day in the Life video]
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