This is why I hate the Media

[Spawn]

http://home.comcast.net/~gold9472/afpphoto.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~gold9472/apphoto.jpg

[Gold9472]

Who are you?

[Gold9472]

Let's see if people can distinguish what's wrong with those pictures.

[dz]

i had to vote for both..

the politics were that there is no money to make by protecting minorities (black/mexican/poor/etc.).. they could have protected them alot cheaper than rebuilding the entire city, but there was no money to be made in that, and they were willing to risk having thousands die..

so in a way it is both, although instead of race or racism, i would call it class or classism.. they could have been rednecks, mexicans, blacks, or any other minority and they still would have been overlooked.

with that said, i find it all completely disgusting and i think our government is about as corrupt as is possible and i in no way agree with their politics.

[dz]

Who are you?

hes a new user, be nice!

[Gold9472]

hes a new user, be nice!

He's an OLD user who never actually USED the site before.

[EminemsRevenge]

Let's see if people can distinguish what's wrong with those pictures.

i've been riffing on this for days on my blog.

What's really frightful now is some Aussie story i read on kuro5hin.org...they are starting to believe that looter spin that Fox "news" has been harping on...and did anyone else notice that Sean Hannity now has the "looting" as the major disaster:mad:

[Gold9472]

i've been riffing on this for days on my blog.

What's really frightful now is some Aussie story i read on kuro5hin.org...they are starting to believe that looter spin that Fox "news" has been harping on...and did anyone else notice that Sean Hannity now has the "looting" as the major disaster:mad:

Well aren't you special.

[jetsetlemming]

Who are you?
He's "angry black man", can't you read? Hey, are those two pics from two different places? 'Cause that might make a difference in the reporting...

[princesskittypoo]

i noticed!!!

the white people have a semi nice comment beside their pictures were as the black guy had LOOTING written beside his. now they were doing the exact same thing but with a different SPIN on it. :)

did i do good?

[ThotPolice]

I don't know I can't see the other picture, If it was of black people grabbing tv sets or sterios then they were looting, if they were grabbing food then well that sucks.

However if a picture had been taken of white people grabbing tv's and the caption was "supplies" that would be really scary.

Anyway i guess the media and a bunch of authors and politics and cival rights leaders are more rich and famous now for turning an unfourtunate act of god into a race issue.

Yay capitalism!!

[MrDark71]

I can't see the pictures

[PhilosophyGenius]

I can't see the pictures

I believe it's pics of black people stealig with captions saying they're looters. And white people taking things and it's for survival. From the AP I believe.

[MrDark71]

The media just feeds off itself and real life.

[beltman713]

That whole Virginia Tech coverage made me sick, especially those "tribute" segments with the emotional music playing in the background.

TV news in not about informing you, it's about entertaining you.