Quake: “Truly Heartbreaking” For Journos

CNN, and other cable news networks, have not devoted enough attention to the human suffering in Pakistan following last weekend’s earthquake. But the dispatches that have come from region deserve kudos. Yesterday on CNN, international correspondent Stan Grant said “there is too much death.”

He quoted a doctor who is trying to save lives, then said: “But, for all his personal trauma, Dr. Iddenberg will have a life. He will go on. Our cameras, too, will move on. But we leave behind a little girl who will not see too many more days. For all of the will of the doctors here, they cannot save her.”

Then Grant came back on camera: “And that is the truly heartbreaking thing about this, for us reporting the story, also the medical teams, those at the front line of this rescue effort: There’s only so much you can do, only so much you can cope with. Then you simply have to walk away and leave these people to the worst possible fate.” Here’s the transcript…