All the news have coincided: the rescue of the girl Nur, trapped, but happily alive, under tons of cement and concrete in a building in the Syrian town of Jindires, has been the image, the summary of this tragedy that has devastated Turkey and Syria in the form of an earthquake.
The eyes of nur They were looking at us through the screen. We don’t know what this girl must have been thinking at that moment. We know what television is thinking by choosing that moment: to achieve an emotional impact and elevate it to a category. Honestly, this time she did not blame him. I believe in the good intention of this election. And above all I believe in the usefulness and power of this rescue of nur as a synthesis of a glimmer of hope in the face of a terrible catastrophe.
All tragedy focused on TV acquires dimensions of emotional impact if there are children. On September 2, 2015, on a beach on the coast of Turkey, the body of a child was found lying on the shore. It was called Aylan. He was also Syrian, of Kurdish origin. He was three years old. That television image went around the world. He died Aylan, and his older brother died, five years old, Galip, and his mother died rehan. They were fleeing, in a boat, from the Syrian war. Aylan, Lying in the soft sway of the waves on the shore, it was a television hit that impacted the hearts and brains of all the viewers.
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But TV has not always known how to treat children immersed in a tragedy with respect, sensitivity, and delicacy. On November 13, 1985, Omayra, A thirteen-year-old girl was trapped in a swamp, a huge sinkhole of water and mud produced after the eruption of the Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz. She only stuck out her head. The rest of her body was sunk. And she was like that for three days. She died. TV treated Omayra in a reprehensible and vile way. They kept his agony on screen, focusing on his head constantly for the three days, reveling in close-ups that showed how the water slowly rose until it covered his mouth and nose. That was a very undignified television exercise, very scoundrel, very petty.
In Vitoria lives a notable writer, Toti Martinez de Lezea, author of a delicate and fun collection of adventures starring a girl who is also called Nur. The girl’s eyes nur rescued in Syria maybe they will read them one day.