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This tragedy was poorly covered

Sep 14, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
In a media landscape where there is an abundance of resources should allowed our media in Guyana (both the print and electronic) to have covered the missing Kaieteur Falls woman much, much better. I could not see the story on most nightly newscasts or even followed the progress of the search on such newscasts. There were a few repetitive newspaper articles with similar details from the previous. The electronic media did not make use of simulation videos of the Falls and a possible jump; the print media did not make use of family accounts or even maps.
The entire story lacked investigative journalism. Headlines like that—a woman missing at a world- famous falls even would have attracted millions of eyes worldwide since similar falls exist at Niagara, NY and Canada. Our journalists should have had a field day with such a human- interest story.
There were no interviews of the woman’s relatives—we didn’t hear about any problem or issue she might have been going through prior and during the trip….she was crying during the trip, as some sections of the media revealed.
We did not get enough information from the press—our gatekeepers of knowledge. I do not know if the media were allowed to accompany the army on the search (they should have) but again—no pictures from those searches. Doesn’t the army have a photographic/media section?
Not every day someone jumps from the Kaieteur Falls. The reportage of the story had several missing links and gaps. Sad.
Today (Sunday) the news broke that a woman’s body was spotted at the bottom of the Falls. I can only hope some of our press members were allowed to travel to the search area to bring us first- hand information.
We, as media must go deep into stories, especially of such nature. Instead of just presenting the facts, we should start analyzing more.
Leon Suseran

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