On Jun 14, 2:56=A0am, RichAsianKid <richasian...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> This is another excellent account:
>
> http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2005/09/africa_in_our_m.php
> Africa in our Midst: Lessons fromKatrina
> Jared Taylor
>
Rich Asian Kid,
Class warfare is an ugly - especially when the mass media gets
involved.
Here's another excellent account that should not be missed!
Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists
By Jaime Omar Yassin November/December 2005
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3D2793
excerpts...
Preoccupied with broadcasting the bounty of rumors emerging from New
Orleans, Blitzer and most cor****ate news purveyors seemed unable to
fulfill one of their primary roles in re****ting on the Katrina disaster
=97that of verifying claims made by sources, whether officials or
ordinary people. Responsible, skeptical re****ters might have erred on
the side of caution, anticipating that a different image of the
flooded city would likely emerge once evacuation and rescue procedures
finally proceeded.
Indeed, weeks later, the Los Angeles Times (9/27/05) noted that follow-
up re****ting had discredited most of the wilder re****ts, including
those of pedophilic rape, murder at the Superdome and =93roving bands of
armed gang members attacking the helpless.=94 The New Orleans Times-
Picayune (9/26/05), in a story headlined =93Rumors of Deaths Greatly
Exaggerated,=94 found an official count of only four violent deaths
citywide for the entire flood period=97a figure it noted was =93typical in
a city that anticipated more than 200 homicides this year.=94
Similarly, Knight Ridder=92s wire service (10/2/05) debunked the seminal
stories of sniping at rescue vehicles, re****ting that =93more than a
month later, representatives from the Air Force, Coast Guard,
Department of Homeland Security and Louisiana Air National Guard say
they have yet to confirm a single incident of gunfire at helicopters.=94
The article put to rest the ambulance-shooting mythologies propagated
by the likes of Blitzer, observing that the account from which they
germinated was mischaracterized to begin with; the ambulance driver
who claimed he was prevented from dropping supplies off at a hospital
because of armed crowds on its roof =93never went to the hospital,
turning back after hearing a warning over military radio.=94
But such do***entation was for the future to take care of. CNN and
other cor****ate media had no time to concern themselves with veracity
when there were apocalyptic accounts of =93looting=94 to be disseminated,
many of them based on New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin=92s frantic
description of looters =93starting to get closer to heavily populated
areas=94 (AP, 9/1/05). Though much of the actual =93loot=94 being
commandeered should have made journalists wary of repeating Nagin=92s
assertions=97disposable diapers were prominently visible in frequently
replayed footage=97many re****ters jumped in feet first.
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