New York Times 2/11

The headline about a Chicagoan's difficulty in retrieving his family from Haiti immediately caught my eye. Sometimes I don't think that the American public realizes how close to home this earthquake in Haiti really is, and it adds another angle to the story that Americans can more easily identify with when it is an actual American who is returning home to save his family. I was very surprised at the ariel photos of 9/11 being shown now- we feel like we've gotten all the news that is available, and to have pictures that are so vivid released 9 years after they were taken brings the reader right back to how they felt when they first saw the photos. I was curious why it took them so long to release them though. I also found the headline regarding Obama's "gambles" in a bid to defuse nuclear standoff with Iran. I feel like the journalist who wrote this definitely knew that the word "gambles" attached to something about nuclear power would be something most people would read, since it is so gripping