Why would this video reporting a survivor pulled ALIVE from the rubble 4 WEEKS after the earthquake in Haiti be titled "Survivor buried 4 weeks?"?

I want to state for the record that CNN News has done an incredible job of covering the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. (Although I want to note that is their job.....so to me the fact that we are praising ANY news organization for properly covering and reporting important news says so much about the world today.....but that is for another post.)

That said, why would this video reporting someone being pulled from the rubble 4 WEEKS after an earthquake be titled "Survivor buried 4 weeks?"? Why is there a question mark at the end of the title? What is the question?




This is not the first time a report has been titled like this. On January 26, 2010 I wrote a post right after I watch live CNN's exclusive breaking news of a man named Ricot Duprevil having just been pulled from the rubble 2 weeks after the quake. I was so excited listening to the doctor who was treating him say how well he was doing and how it was a miracle. Then on January 27, 2010 an article about survivor Ricot Duprevil is titled, "Earthquake survivor: I spent two weeks trapped under rubble" and it begins with the following:

As Ricot Duprevil tells it, rescuers saved him after he spent two weeks under earthquake rubble.




There's no question that Duprevil was pulled out alive from the rubble of a Port-au-Prince building Tuesday. But confirmation of his two-week account might just remain buried among the ruins.


A doctor treating the 31-year-old man says he is inclined to believe Duprevil.


The hospital where Duprevil was taken was unable to conduct an initial blood test that might have helped prove or disprove his account.


And the U.S. soldiers who arrived and treated Duprevil after his rescue did not see which building area residents recovered him from -- a freshly collapsed one or one destroyed two weeks ago, when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti. The residents who rescued him could not be immediately located........

The article does go on to say that his family had reported him missing after the quake and were feverishly looking for him and that the doctor who treated him believed him which anyone who had heard Dr. Ford talking to CNN live on already knew. The point is why are some feeling the need to question whether a person saying they were buried in the rubble for an amount of time is telling the truth or not?


When I saw the first article, I was really upset but I figured it was a poor choice of words and I let it go. But after watching this video blog post on CNN today as they kept questioning the validity of the story I had to write something about it because this is just to important to let go again. Because even though most of the world is focusing on this and understanding the magnitude of this, there is still a small amount of ignorance and this only leads to more of that.

A man is pulled alive from the rubble 4 weeks after the quake in Haiti.......
He tells how "someone in a white coat who brought him water" from time to time......
This story should have been an incredible story of survival, courage, miracles, faith and hope.
This story could have been about proof the existence of a Creator.....................
But instead it was a story about "there not being any proof to substantiate a man and his rescuers claims of having been buried under the rubble since the earthquake in Haiti 4 weeks ago".

I just want to know why anyone would think to question it. First of all, look at each of these men, to me it's obviously true. Second, why would they lie? Have there been people pretending to be buried and really weren't? What do they have to gain from this?


So I am writing this hoping to find out why stories are being reported like this and to ask it to stop. This is the worst natural disaster in history, with the immediate death toll ranging from 100,000 to over 200,000 people, anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 people injured, the vast majority of which were amputations and up to 2,000,000 people having lost everything. And included in these numbers are members of the government, police, medical and every other area.


Yet through all of this unbelievable devastation, the citizens of Haiti and all of the miraculous things that have happened are examples of courage, survival, faith, inspiration, and hope for the entire world. I believe with all my heart and soul that we (the world) are all being given an opportunity to take this unimaginable tragedy and create truly positive, important and much needed change in the world and we are doing it. The world is coming together and is helping each other in a way I have never seen in my lifetime. But reporting like this doesn't offer any help or positive change and can only lead to negative consequences. So I think it's time to stop this type of misleading and confusing reporting.


I would really like to know what other people think about this, so please leave a comment on the post.

This is a photo of the man pulled from the rubble 4 weeks after the quake and is from a blog entry by the photographer Michael Andrew on his website (thank you for sharing your photographs):

This is a photo of Ricot Duprevil immediately after he was pulled from the rubble:

Again I want to say how incredible the coverage has been over all and the vast majority of it has truly shown the strength of the human spirit and I cannot imagine how hard this has been for everyone with any connection to Haiti and all those who have gone to help and cover the aftermath of the earthquake. Everyone are heroes and who each one of us can aspire to be and I thank you.

Peace, Light and Take Care,