If you watch the main stream media, it seems that black people are portrayed as "looters" while white people are presented as "scavengers"
J Wermont wrote: >Good articles, but I sure wish people (who are mostly progressive >and should know better) would stop referring to people who are taking >food and supplies, in order to survive, as "looters". It makes them >sound like violent savages, when in fact, they are barely surviving >in a hell hole, with little help from their government "services". > >Joyce W > >On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:34:58PM -0400, John Hayes wrote: > > Very interesting. While the folks at redstate.org are already > > counter-spinning hard due to the supposed bias in the "MSM" (Mainstream > > Media), more intellectual folks are starting to ask if Katrina > > represents a tipping point for the current administration and their > > worldview. > > > > I first noticed it with Fukuyama's recent column about Iraq on Tuesday. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/opinion/31fukuyama.html > > > > Then Brooks wrote an interesting history of Floods and US politics. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/opinion/01brooks.html > > > > The same day Douthat wrote an eye-opening piece on the neo-con world > > view and how it deals with 9/11 versus Katrina. > > http://www.theamericanscene.com/2005/09/anti-911-on-september-11-there-was.php > > > > Noam Scheiber at the New Republic replied to Douthat's piece. > > http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=2764 > > > > Tom Bartnett said the Bush admin "makes Jon Stewart's job such a > > frickin' cakewalk that the man should send his Peabody's to the White > > House as a thank-you." > > http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/archives2/002244.html > > > > And then today Brooks essentially said we've already reached the tipping > > point since the Bush adminstration lacks competence. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04brooks.html > > > > Very interesting times we live in. > > > > jh > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Biofuel mailing list > > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > > messages): > > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
