"Will we still care when media leave?"

When the tide of journalists now in Asia inevitably recedes, and the normal news cycle churns again, will media interest dry up? Or can we hope that lives and deaths in hellish and dark places, now unrecorded by Western cameras, rise to the top of media attention so that the milk of human kindness never again dries up? - Antonia Zerbisias in Toronto Star Jan 6, 2005