Did You Find Somewhere To Get Some News?

So did you also get the sense last night that basically no English-language news organization has people in Haiti? Of course it is going to be difficult getting news and information out of something terrible like this in the first 48 hours; totally understandable. Most on-scene reporting I would pretty much expect to be like “THIS IS HORRIBLE, GOTTA GO HELP SOME PEOPLE.” But we’re not getting that. And the second-hand news-the aggregation, if you will? Really weird.

The Times last night was bizarre! The Lede blog has taken over chief “referring readers to news” duties and this is what comes out.

Update | 11:59 p.m. My colleague Jennifer Preston has compiled this Twitter list of users of the social network who are in Haiti or providing useful information on the aftermath of the earthquake there.

Update | 11:02 p.m. Tequila Minsky, a New York-based photographer who is staying at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince — which was the model for the Haitian hotel in Graham Greene’s novel “The Comedians” — told my colleague Patrick Witty, a photo editor on the New York Times foreign desk, what she saw immediately after the earthquake. She had arrived at the hotel just two hours before the quake struck, shaking the walls of her room shook and knocking things off it…..

Update | 10:25 p.m. Thanks to a reader who pointed us to this partial list of Twitter users who say they are in Haiti compiled by the Los Angeles Times.

I mean, this could be worse! They could be telling me nothing. I mean, I’m not even going to turn CNN on, because, no. And, yes, I kinda prefer all that stuff above to this.

Referrals totally appreciated, by the way!