By Ansel Herz

Breaking: North American news outlets "excited" by Haiti cholera outbreak. They say for them, "without a crisis, Haiti doesn't exist."

It's a bitterly sarcastic but, unfortunately, entirely true statement, made via Twitter this week by Vanderbilt University historian Peter James Hudson. CNN doubled its prime-time viewership in January when a 7.0 earthquake devastated much of the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. With CNN lagging behind its more partisan competitors, disaster porn is now the news channel's bread and butter.


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