The faraway Haitian earthquake suddenly became a matter of paramount importance today, as thousands of frantically-digging journalists finally succeeded in unearthing a story about a missing Briton amid the appalling mass of jumbled detritus about uninteresting foreign paupers.
Although the Red Cross estimates that 50,000 unimportant black people have died in the disaster, with millions injured, orphaned or made homeless, the full scale of the unimaginable human tragedy was brought home to the front pages by the discovery that UN worker Ann Barnes has not been seen since Tuesday.
On hearing the awful news, prime minister Gordon Brown immediately swung into action by urging the world to send urgently-needed troops and supplies that could be used to find the missing British passport holder.
Meanwhile, the UK newspaper industry is generously donating thousands of tons of newsprint over the all-important next few days, to ensure that the British angle on the story does not die.
Meanwhile, in the United States, a concerned public is anxiously waiting for Hollywood's leading actors to appear on TV asking it for donations.
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