The Israeli pull-out from the Gaza
Strip is getting its fair share of attention in the Australian media,
but it’s nothing compared to the coverage in America. Have a look at this interactive graphic on The New York Times website (requires free registration, but it’s worth doing just for this).

Gaza
isn’t a big place, so a full screen can show plenty of detail. It’s
regularly updated to show progress of the evacuations; you can set the
legend yourself to show different geographical features, and if you
move the cursor over the settlements you get aerial photos and
summaries of them.

Australia’s media websites are very mundane
by comparison; a few stories and photos, an occasional graphic.
Admittedly we don’t have New York’s large Jewish population or
America’s long-time financial stake in Israel. But still, why can’t our
media come up with something a bit more inventive?