Summaries–Patrickthestar1

It seems counterintuitive that Fabienne Cherismas death, A fifteen year old girl shot by police following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti could be anything other than a senseless tragedy. Fabienne was killed amid the chaos and a period of desperation due to scarcity of supplies. She was shot and her body laid exposed on a rooftop, photographed and the image circulated . Her death, however, became a symbol not only for the immensely dire situation in Haiti but also of the complex ways the media manipulate an image to change public perception and drive humanitarian efforts in a problematic yet profound way. The image of her lifeless body provided a face to the suffering of a nation that forced people to confront the realities of the disaster in a way that statistics or news reports could never completely capture.The media managed to transform a single moment of tragedy and chaos surrounding  and shifted the narrative to human suffering and real pain. While Fabienne’s death was without a doubt tragic the widespread circulation of the image forced the world to understand the consequences of the disaster in way that could not possibly be ignored.

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