
I was listening to The World on PRI the other night and they were talking about the dire situation in Haiti. One of the major problems has been communications--phones, both landline and cell, were knocked out, as were internet, blackberry service, even satellites--making it very difficult to relay information and direct people to where help was most needed. There was one thing that remained viable, however, and that was the radio. Plain old regular terrestrial radio. The main station in Port-au-Prince has been on the air [...]