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unique
You are comparing apples and oranges. US is considered to be the most advanced country in the world - the so called super power. You can't compare US media coverage to Pakistani media coverage. Their media has been around doing this kind of work for over 150 years (if you include press and radio journalism) and they have come a long way and learned a lot. Our media is new and immature to say the least - they are still trying to find its walking feet and the craziness in attitudes and immaturity of people is reflected in our media coverage too. Same is true for India.
I agree that Pakistani media shows the gory details and content which is not appropriate but again its a reflection of the behaviors and attitudes prevalent in our society. We don't really care much about sensibilities of people. Most of the time the media does get overzealous in their effort to sensationalize stories and improve their ratings - which should be condemned.
However, as @
tariisb pointed out above its media's responsibility to point out government failures and act as the voice of the people. Most of the times we know that our government comes up short when it comes to people's just expectations. This is not to say that sometime the people in our country have unrealistic expectations of their government.
Coming back to the coverage of disasters in the US - their coverage sometime does border on ludicrous but thats a good problem to have compared to what we see on our media. Another point is that most of the time in the US they are well prepared and ready for natural disasters (as well prepared as one can be) and they spend a lot of money on drills to test out their systems and procedures. Most of the deaths that happened are unavoidable - majority of them are caused by falling trees - which can't be predicted accurately. Otherwise they control avoidable casualties.
This is not to say that sometime they come way short of discharging their responsibilities - case in point is Hurricane Katrina - alomost 1300 people perished in that disaster and in that case the media was all over the government and IT DID SHOW PEOPLE screaming for help and cursing out their government and the media in some cases went far beyond their duties to report governments failures and calling out their incompetence. I would refer to widespread coverage of Hurricane Katrina which basically showed what you said in your post that the western media never shows. In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina the media ripped apart the government's response or rather the lack of response and showed people suffering and sometime it was not a pretty sight (at least by western standards).
