Pakistan Flood News Analysis

Fox9 News
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpps/news/pakistan-extends-flood-relief-phase-to-six-months-dpgonc-km-20100904_9492673

Fox 9 News is run by Fox entertainment group news which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

Fox 9 News had AFP a global news agency article for the Pakistan flooding. Southern Pakistan was evacuated because of the flood and is in need of more tents to house the flood victims. 2.8 million people were displaced because of the flood. The death toll is 1,760 but is predicted to significantly rise once the missing are accounted for. And "domestic anger continues to mount against the unpopular civilian government" (AFP)



CNN News
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/10/13/pleitgen.pakistan.flood.no.end.cnn?iref=allsearch



CNN is owned by Time Warner which is one of the biggest media corporation and most popular in the world.
CNN reports that 8 agencies are struggling to provide the necessities such as clean water and medicine needed to care for the flood victims. The UN also reports that it's only receiving a fraction of donation it needs to provide food and housing. The UN is urging the international community to help Pakistan. Also because of the flood it is preventing sustainability because the land is submerged in water so won't be able to farm etc.
Jang Daily
http://thenews.com.pk/blog/blog_details.asp?id=889

Jang Daily is owned by the Jang group of Newspapers in the Middle East. One of the most popular papers in Pakistan

In this article the issue is rebuilding/reconstructing Pakistan, Pakistan doesn't have the necessary funds in reconstructing Pakistan and is struggling to get financial support. It also mentions that If aid does not reach the flood victims then the government leaders would lose even more credibility. The international community and the IMF had given millions of dollars supporting the reconstruction but as Hilary Clinton was quoted that the international community can only do so much and that wealthy Pakistanis should contribute to aid their own country.

In all these articles the main topic is the Flooding of Southern Pakistan. Discussed in all these articles/video was money. Money has been a huge issue because when this event occurred, to bring relief to the flood victims donations were needed to provide food, shelter and medical aid. But not enough donations were coming in to support the necessities of these victims and so they were urging for the international community to help.
Then later once the waters had receded they needed money to rebuild Pakistan but again they were in need of financial support in millions of dollars. For some reason it is hard for Pakistan to receive the necessary funds and this may be due to the unpopular government that they have.
In the Jang article it was the only article about funds for reconstruction and it had a Hillary Clinton quoted as I had commented above. It talks about how the wealthy community in Pakistan needs to contribute to this cause because it is unfair for other international communities to support them yet their own people are not and they have the resources within the country to do so. In the Fox News article it mentions the death toll and about more of government officials being involved in the evacuation and of the displacement of millions of people because of the flood. The CNN report focused more on the victims and reaching out to the international communities to donate money. I think the coverages were all different because they focused on different things. One thing that I did notice is that Pakistan isn't very popular. The government is not liked very well and I personally don't know why but it could be to the unstable government, terrorism etc. These articles also progress in the event of the flood, the beginning, the middle and then the ending of it. It could be why it is different from each other because the needs are different during these times.