First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

I realize the magnitude of what's happened for the program. It's a huge milestone.

There is a clear difference between disaster relief operations and warfare. Our armed forces are designed to protect us from enemies, not protect us from fires, floods and hurricanes.

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

Every natural calamity that is reported across the world is more superior in power and by the amount of devastation. The world society needs a United Global Disaster Management and Recovery System, who can think reverse about the softness of the nature, do things out of the way to assist the human society during aftermaths, irrespective of border, religion, race and color.