Video Report From Poorly-Marketed Natural Disaster In Pakistan

“Humanitarian organizations cited sparse media coverage globally and the relatively low death toll as the main factors in the slow pace of donations. Other elements, they said, included the preoccupation many nations have right now with their own economic problems, donor fatigue left over from the Haiti earthquake; and the August vacation season, when people are somewhat detached from the world.”
–Come on, Pakistan. Everyone knows if you want to roll-out a natural disaster that that puts one-fifth of your country (60,000 square miles, an area roughly the size of England) under water, you don’t do it in August! Also, if you want to get those donations flowing, you really gotta up the body count. Twenty million people merely “left homeless” is not going to put the money into the baskets.