Please Stop, Anderson. Just STOP.

Please immediately:

— Stop using the camera to rob people of their dignity when it’s the only thing they have left.

— Stop infantilizing the Haitian people.

— Stop the pity party.

— Stop the exploitation of despair to promote your own brand — especially with those horrible patronizing split-screens.

— Stop playing savior.

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@andersoncooper @CNN — PLEASE STOP visually exploiting the Haitians! http://bit.ly/8R1DGc (To send CNN the message, pls retweet!)

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UPDATE 1/22/10: To every- and anyone who responded to this post asking for more explanation of my outrage, as well as the meaning of the screen grabs above, please click through to my follow-up post “Why and How I Lost It Yesterday (Over CNN “Getting Off” On a Haitian Victim Rescue).“

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