erynthered Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=30158 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC-Bills Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=30158 438306[/snapback] I find your manlove for SNR quite disturbing. Aside from that, he did have a nice post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 My guess is that you weren't waiting for water also Eryn? :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 I find your manlove for SNR quite disturbing. Aside from that, he did have a nice post. 438569[/snapback] I also find the manlove disturbing. I take the water was fine where you live? Betcha your local Schnucks had lots of water stocked? Nursing homes in Champaign are probably doing fine? The bottom line is that TV coverage was not that positive yet, the human suffering that was shown was very real. Why not show it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNRed Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=30158 438306[/snapback] The check's in the mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 The check's in the mail. 438680[/snapback] You forgot the other two lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC-Bills Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 I also find the manlove disturbing. I take the water was fine where you live? Betcha your local Schnucks had lots of water stocked? Nursing homes in Champaign are probably doing fine? The bottom line is that TV coverage was not that positive yet, the human suffering that was shown was very real. Why not show it? 438605[/snapback] Woa, hold on there. I am in no way questioning the human suffering going on. What I do question about the media is the laziness of trying to get all the facts before they try to pin the blame or make statements. That's what I took from the article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 The bottom line is that TV coverage was not that positive yet, the human suffering that was shown was very real. Why not show it? 438605[/snapback] No one said don't show it. But people are rightly questioning why the news is "blame" oriented. Just because people are suffering doesn't mean that someone is at fault. Tragedies happen, people die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNRed Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 I also find the manlove disturbing. I take the water was fine where you live? Betcha your local Schnucks had lots of water stocked? Nursing homes in Champaign are probably doing fine? The bottom line is that TV coverage was not that positive yet, the human suffering that was shown was very real. Why not show it? 438605[/snapback] The problem isn't that they showed human suffering, the problem is that ALL they showed was human suffering without providing any hard information as to what was going on at the local, state, and federal levels to help people. And the media just talks about the federal response like it's a hard fact that it was an unmitigated disaster when that is the exact opposite of the truth. CNN isn't asking "Was the federal response slow compared to previous natural disasters?" No, the graphic at the screen this morning was "Who is to blame for the government's slow response?" This morning MSNBC's graphic was "Bush responds to criticism for sluggish federal response." No one in the mainstream media has the balls to ask if what they're "reporting" is even true. When your job is to sit behind a desk and read a teleprompter, I don't know if I need your opinion on how disasters should be handled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Just because people are suffering doesn't mean that someone is at fault. 438749[/snapback] Whoa. That's deep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Whoa. That's deep. 438752[/snapback] I'm on some new meds so some of this stuff might be really off the wall for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Jong Il Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 The problem isn't that they showed human suffering, the problem is that ALL they showed was human suffering without providing any hard information as to what was going on at the local, state, and federal levels to help people. And the media just talks about the federal response like it's a hard fact that it was an unmitigated disaster when that is the exact opposite of the truth. CNN isn't asking "Was the federal response slow compared to previous natural disasters?" No, the graphic at the screen this morning was "Who is to blame for the government's slow response?" This morning MSNBC's graphic was "Bush responds to criticism for sluggish federal response." No one in the mainstream media has the balls to ask if what they're "reporting" is even true. When your job is to sit behind a desk and read a teleprompter, I don't know if I need your opinion on how disasters should be handled. 438750[/snapback] It is undeniable that criminal Bush is to blame for the flood. It is not just a coincidence that Operation Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans but not his multi-billion dollars oil ranch in Crawford, punishing the disenfranchised poor black population of the city for not voting for him in the rigged fraudulent 2000 and 2004 elections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 No one said don't show it. But people are rightly questioning why the news is "blame" oriented. Just because people are suffering doesn't mean that someone is at fault. Tragedies happen, people die. 438749[/snapback] So true. So true. In this case some people got served and some people didn't get served. I am probably sure that the people that didn't get served can blame somebody? That is all the media is focusing on. The media was the squeeky wheel... It served a purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 It is undeniable that criminal Bush is to blame for the flood. It is not just a coincidence that Operation Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans but not his multi-billion dollars oil ranch in Crawford, punishing the disenfranchised poor black population of the city for not voting for him in the rigged fraudulent 2000 and 2004 elections. 438761[/snapback] Trent Lott's home in MS was wiped out. Collateral damage? Friendly fire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNRed Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 The media was the squeeky wheel... It served a purpose. 439106[/snapback] Only if you consider badly distorting the reality of what happened a "purpose." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Jong Il Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Trent Lott's home in MS was wiped out. Collateral damage? Friendly fire? 439107[/snapback] Criminal Bush will stop at nothing to forcibly impose his criminal illegal fraudulent rule. The social turmoil caused by the massive flooding, provoked by squads of undercover secret CIA-backed US Special Forces disguised as looters looting commercial buildings (just like they did in Baghdad in 2003, the criminal Modus Operandi of the Bush clique always repeating itself) gave him so called "justification" for imposing martial law upon the US, the necessary pretext to round-up progressives and political dissidents and summarily stifling dissent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Only if you consider badly distorting the reality of what happened a "purpose." 439130[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 The media was the squeeky wheel... It served a purpose. 439106[/snapback] I've got two words that prove that statement wrong: Shepherd Smith. Wait...I've got two more: Geraldo Rivera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNRed Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Shepherd Smith. 439266[/snapback] "Officer, there's a body over there. Can't you do anything? Officer! OFFICER!! OFF-I-SIR!!!! There's....there's....just no law and order here." Don't forget CNN's hard-hitting interview with Celine Dion. "Why didn't we have KAYAKS?!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 "Officer, there's a body over there. Can't you do anything? Officer! OFFICER!! OFF-I-SIR!!!! There's....there's....just no law and order here." 439276[/snapback] "No one's doing anything about this body, so I decided to use it as a photo op..." That (his ridiculous little "nobody's doing anything" report) is the precise moment I started actively rooting for the looters to cap his ass... Fortunately, I've managed to avoid all but hearsay reports of the Celine Dion interview... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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