Sunday, May 3, 2009

Barati Palshigar: Ulithi Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia

Today I interviewed Barati Palshigar, a member of Radio Free Earth. Their job was to report on the combat the misinformation that the public had established. Helping to make sure that people knew what was really going on. During the interview he talked about people who thought of World War Z as the rapture and that the world was ending, they would rape virgins in order to become cleansed of their "curse". The problem was that they couldn't report on each call that they had coming into them from people all over the world in different languages and everything. The IR, information reception, clerks were the ones receiving all these calls and the only thing that they could do was sit and listen to the pain and agony and eventually they all killed themselves not wanting to live with the memories. I find this whole operation might not have been worth it to create false hopes for some, but for the greater good, I think it was.

1 comment:

Roberto Gonzalez said...

I think it sucks for the ones who weren't able to understand what was going on. A ll that lack of communication must have hade some sort of impact. Other than that, it was crazy.