Re: [Nolug] why I hate /. (short rant)

Agreed. This may be a bit off topic, but is in the same vein.

I can't tell you how many times I've seen the national media claim that
only the poor sections of town were flooded by the levee breaks. I've
seen first hand newscaster insinuate that only the poor black areas were
flooded.

One example was from Fox News of all places. Referring to the 17th
street canal break, insinuated that the flooded side (Lakeview) was the
"black" side of town and that Bucktown was an upper middle class white
suburb. I even had to correct people I work with, albeit they are not
from here - but still, the national ignorance is overwhelming and the
rest of the US now sees it this way. They also fail to mention that
while the 9th ward is mostly black, St. Bernard generally is not, and
they got wiped out, too. This storm was about as "equal opportunity"
and non-discriminatory as you can get, but that is not what the media
heavy weights want you to know.

....anyway, back to your regularly scheduled broadcast...

Brett

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:24:30 -0500, pcguy1@cox.net said:
> If the news reporters were really reporters and not just talking heads
> they would have dug deeper and found out this network has actually been
> around for almost a couple of years now. Most recently some enhancements
> were made. Have you driven around the city and seen the “crime watch”
> cameras? They are part of the same infrastructure.
>
> New Orleans is not as backwards as the national media likes to portray
> us. However, me doest-not protest too much as we have a chance here to
> grow this to something much larger that will benefit many in the long
> run.
>
> Yours in service,
> Charles Jouglard
> Many Hats, Many Titles, Blah, Blah, Blah, etc.
>
>
>
> From: "Brett D. Estrade" <estrabd@mailcan.com>
> Date: 2005/11/29 Tue PM 03:19:49 EST
> To: nolug@nolug.org
> Subject: [Nolug] why I hate /. (short rant)
>
> <rant>
>
> Because of the retarded dumb shits making comments about stuff they know
> nothing about -
>
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/11/29/1833202.shtml?tid=193&tid=219
>
> Sorry, this hits a little too close to home for me to just blow off.
>
> For me, the worst thing about Katrina is the ire of the nation we now
> have to put up with, and /.'ers have got to be the worst.
>
> </rant>
>
> Brett
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