New York Times: Two different takes on Chile’s tsunami that should’a been on the same page
The NYTimes copy editors didn’t start these two stories on the same page, although one is next to the other’s jump. Here they are in logical proximity:
- Kenneth Chang: Quake Finds Tsunami Forecasts Still Limited ; Why the big wave turned out not to be such a big deal at big distances – and why it was hard for scientists to see that right off the bat.
- Alexei Barrionuevo : The Sea, Lifeblood of Chilean Towns, Turns Deadly ; How the local fishing villages got hammered by these seismic sea waves. Superb, understated point: in Chile along the coast if the Earth heaves (almost) everybody leaves. They know that now in Indonesia, too. Interesting is that the story does not use the word tsunami yet what happened seems to satisfy the Japanese language characters used to write tsunami – those for “harbor wave’.
- Charlie Petit
March 8th, 2010 at 10:53 am
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