"This is why I loathe the media"
08 / 31 / 05
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Hurricane Katrina. I know the damage. I know the devastation. I know that even if things are rebuilt, it's going to take a lot to get back where it used to be. I know a lot of people hit the hardest by this didn't have that much to begin with. I know that, according to the New Orleans mayor, there could very well be thousands of lives lost, and those will be the hardest wounds to heal.
So, knowing all this, it might be easy to understand that if I hear one more reporter talk about 'looting' and 'lawlessness', I'm going to go to the nearest tv station with as many pounds of fertiliser as I can get, and dump it in the newsrooms.
Not all of it is about looting and lawlessness. This is about surviving. There are people who will starve to death because they're not getting the help they need. This is about trying to see one more sunrise, anyway you can.
If it's a choice between social moral upstanding, or your empty stomach, I'd like to see which one those reporters would choose if put in the same situation.
I won't even get into my complete frustration at how the cameras keep showing only black people commiting all this looting. Especially when I read this from the newsradio site, but I doubt if it will ever be played on radio or tv.
At one store, hordes of people from all ages, races and walks of life grabbed food and water.
All races. So why when I turn on the tv do I only see one race in the camera?
Not to say any of this is right. Not when you have people stealing car batteries and beer, or things that fall outside of necessity. But at the same time, I can see why this has turned out the way it did, and for the media to villainize these people, (especially a particular group), is, in my mind, a worse crime to commit.
So if you smell some massive pile of cow dung coming from a west wind, it's probably me, stating my displeasure and a wholly biased, unobjectional, and predominantly commercial news media.
I wish some of these reporters would think about their reaction if they were stuck on a roof, with numbers of dead bodies floating in the waters nearby.
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I notice that in all the photographs and whatnot of refugees wading through water, they're all black. I don't think I've seen a single white face.
The articles keep saying, over and over again, "Those who chose to stay." I wonder about those who /had/ to stay, because they couldn't get away.
( 10:24 pm )