All the news coincided: the rescue of the girl Light, Trapped under tons of cement and concrete in a building in the Syrian town of Jindires, but happily surviving, the image epitomizes this tragedy. The earthquake destroyed Turkey and Syria..
eyes light They were looking at us from the screen. We don’t know what this girl was thinking at that moment. We know what television is thinking by choosing that moment: to make an emotional impact and elevate it into a category. To be honest, I don’t blame him on this occasion. I believe in the good intentions of this election. And above all, I believe in the usefulness and power of this rescue. light as a synthesis of a ray of hope in the face of a terrible disaster.
All tragedies that focus on television, if there are children, acquire dimensions of emotional impact. On September 2, 2015, the body of a child was found lying on the shore of a beach on the Turkish coast. summoned Aylan. He was also Syrian, of Kurdish origin. He was three years old. That television image traveled around the world. Dead Aylan, and his older brother died at the age of five, Winner, and her mother died rehan. They were fleeing the Syrian war in a boat. Aylan, Lying in the soft sway of the waves on the shore, it was a television hit that struck us in the hearts and minds of all viewers.
But television did not always know how to treat children immersed in a tragedy with respect, sensitivity and grace. On November 13, 1985, Omayra, A thirteen-year-old girl is stranded in a swamp, a large pit of water and mud formed after the eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano. Only his head was out. The rest of his body had sunk. And it was like that for three days. she is dead. TV treated Omayra reprehensible and contemptible. They kept her pain on screen, focusing constantly on her head for three days, enjoying close-ups showing how the water gradually rose until it covered her mouth and nose. It was such a dishonorable television exercise, so low, so trivial.
A notable writer lives in Vitoria, Toti Martinez de Lezea He is the author of a sensitive and entertaining collection of adventures starring a girl who is also called. Light. girl’s eyes light Maybe those who were rescued in Syria will read it one day.