Reply #8: The Mail just doesn't care about Haiti

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Blog post about the Daily Fail's abysmal coverage of the haiti earthquake

http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/01/mail-makes-haiti-top-story-when-they.html

So where, exactly, did the Mail place its coverage in the print edition?

Flicking through, there are stories about:

Conservative Party plans on alcohol and teachers' pay.
Swine flu.
Nick Clegg, faith schools and homosexuality.
The BBC and U2.
A 106-year-old woman 'forced to leave the home she loved'.
Gary McKinnon.
Britain being out of recession (buried on page 6).
Madeleine McCann.
The Chilcot Inquiry.
Weather warnings.
Lawyers trying to gag an MP.

And there are also articles about:

A policeman who is 5ft tall.
How women's handbags are 57% lighter than two years ago.
Dannii Minogue being pregnant.
A review of the Legally Blonde stage show.

And it is only after all that, on pages 12 and 13, that the Mail finds room for the Haiti earthquake. Even then, page 12 is half taken up with a Tesco advert for Bold washing powder. 'Lighten the load' it says, next to pictures of a child with bandages around its head and a dazed woman crawling over rubble.

Page 13 contains the longest article of the spread - and that is a short history of Haiti titled 'Rape, murder and voodoo on the island of the damned' which hardly mentions the quake among all the stereotypes. Meanwhile, the main article is 25 unrevealing sentences long.