President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have arrived in Puerto Rico to survey the damage of Hurricane Fiona and help out in humanitarian efforts for people struggling in the wake of a powerful hurricane.
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National TV news coverage of Hurricane Fiona’s path through Puerto Rico fell into a predictable pattern: The story was covered largely as an isolated meteorological phenomenon, with the usual parade of disaster imagery. The storm caused devastating flooding in Puerto Rico, which resulted in millions of people losing power and 760,000 left without access to potable water. But the storm’s impacts, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, were exacerbated by human failure exemplified by an electrical grid system that again foundered when it was needed most. Corporate news networks aired more than 240 segments that mentioned Puerto Rico’s power outages. Yet not only did they largely fail to mention that global warming is driving wetter storms like Hurricane Fiona, per a recent Media Matters study, but they also failed to connect the island’s infrastructure failures during Fiona to the policies and practices that exacerbate climate impacts and hinder recovery for poor
The blackout that engulfed Puerto Rico when Category One hurricane, Fiona, hit on September 18, laid bare the impacts of austerity and privatisation carried under United States fiscal control, reports Barry Sheppard.