US Navy personnel load food supplies into a Sea Hawk helicopter at Banda Aceh airport. Photograph: Dimas Ardian/Getty
The terrifying events of Boxing Day, and all that followed, haven't disappeared from the front pages yet. But, in time, they will. Peter Preston, a former editor of the Guardian, wrote a frequently highly critical column in Sunday's Observer about how the media have covered the story.
"And the next question," he writes, "the question for this coming week, is how to grip millions - the millions still digging in to their pockets and fumbling for their credit cards - with a story that won't be over for half a decade of suffering or more."
Good question. How should we continue to follow this story, when the my-donation's-bigger-than-yours grandstanding is over, the bodies are all lost or buried, the final death toll is (more or less) known and the survivors have started again?
Your thoughts and suggestions are very welcome.
