Another chance to hear the SBS Podcast series, 'History's First Draft'. Journalism has been described as the first rough draft of history, with reporters often bearing witness to the world’s most awful and awe-inspiring events.
Another chance to hear the SBS Podcast series, 'History's First Draft'. Journalism has been described as the first rough draft of history, with reporters often bearing witness to the world’s most awful and awe-inspiring events. But what is the emotional toll after being on the front lines of history? In this episode, Allan Lee shares his experience covering the devastating 2011 Christchuch earthquake.
“We arrived and there was no power. We were among the first media from outside Christchurch to arrive. There's something very disturbing about driving in on a road that you've driven in on dozens of times and all buildings have fallen down. We did the breakfast show every day with live reports in. We would then go out into the suburbs, meeting people, meeting emergency workers.
REPORTER 2: “Absolutely covered the one under here, hopefully there’s no-one under here. All we can hear is the horn and across the way in this building here there are people trapped and they’re trying to get them out.”But how can seeing and experiencing nature at its worst affect a person? But even after 30 years, he says no amount of work in the industry could have prepared him to cover something like this.
When a natural disaster occurs, most people spend the aftermath coming to terms with what had happened - surveying the damage, and checking on loved ones.“We didn't really have time to think about it. I think there were moments when it hit us in terms of what we're doing. One of the things that happened was CTV, Canterbury TV, their building collapsed. Now the program that we made went out on CTV and I had a good friend who worked in the building. We never found him.
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