You'll note that when everyone was talking about how wonderful it was that reporters finally woke up and refused to spin the Katrina disaster, I was not among them. Standing in that horror would take almost any human outside the range of things they know how to respond to. It didn't surprise me that when shocked speechless yet pressed to speak, they'd find themselves unable to dissemble.
Me, I've been waiting to see if it was an actual state change or just exhaustion.
I'm still not sure. But that most of the major news sources I check are getting around to reporting how wrong the accusations of beastial behavior were is a good sign.
Now, every news anchor that repeated it on TV and radio needs to let his audience know he received bad information (even in the cases where they themselves inflated the issue, I'm willing to let them get away with it if they just clean up the mess).
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There is no cleaning up this
There is no cleaning up this mess P6. We've been having a series of intensive meetings with some of the peeps we've taken in here and the mainstream media hasn't even begun to scratch the surface of some of the bestial things that were done to black folks by officials in and around New Orleans.
We had a brother who made it across the Gretna bridge before the clampdown recount his Auschwitz moment after he and others were induced onto a bus and promptly brought back across the bridge and dumped unceremoniously in a field with 3000 other black folks who were rounded up, herded onto and contained on that field for 2 days. This brother felt a wave of sheer terror as he felt certain that he and the others were headed for a mass grave at the hands of local law enforcement.
The only way this is going to come anywhere remotely close to true, and you can forget about right, is after we be the media and collect and collate all the horror stories that our people have to tell about what went down. That is, btw, Work-in-progress.
frankly, I'm a little
frankly, I'm a little surprised at the relative ease with which you're extending this credit. there are tens of thousands of oral histories that will need to be recorded and reviewed before anybody let's their guard down. these fools are only giving up what they HAVE to give up.
where's the MSM coverage of what has become of folks displaced far and wide? exceedingly selective attention is being applied to narratizing the aftermath of Katrina. I recommend accepting no substitute for first hand witness accounts delivered in person where all of one's powers of verification are in full muhfuggin effizi.
I'm letting the media off
I'm letting the media off the hook for the broadly spread stories of how beastial the Nawlins Negros are, as they clean it up. That's because you can't just keep telling people how far the have to go without telling them how far they've come. And vice versa.
The media isn't directly responsible for what happened to your friend...and no one gets off the hook for that sort of shit.
the media is responsible for
the media is responsible for its failure to cover official bestiality towards Nawlins Negros, and it's profoundly responsible for its abject abandonment of integrity checking in pursuit of wild racist slander that it would never dare engage in about any other group.
to the best of my knowledge, those ogres in Gretna are scot free and in no fear of further recrimination...,
Credit where due, blame
Credit where due, blame where due. I got no issues with that.
Dominant media is doing its
Dominant media is doing its best to close the American mind to the many ways in which Katrina might educate the populace about racism, militarism, imperialism, and economic exploitation - Martin King's Triple Evils.