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  Covering crisis: the return of compassion fatigue

  Eldis News Weblog, 2005

  This commentary from an Eldis Editor looks at "compassion fatigue" within the aid industry following a year of intense disaster coverage in the media.Kemal Dervis, the head of the UN Development Programme referred to compassion fatigue as one of the reasons for a drop in emergency assistance in the South Asian earthquake.