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September 2, 2005
New Orleans on TV
I don't normally watch much TV news, but I watched some today, and the reporters on the ground are outright angry about what they're seeing. On Countdown, cameraman Tony Zumbado was visibly shaken by seeing people dying outside the Superdome and watching people go without food and water. It got so bad from politicians saying, "I'd just like to thank all the help we're getting" while at the same time people were dying from dehydration in the streets that CNN's Anderson Cooper lashed out at Sen. Mary Landrieu after listening to her "all is well" platitudes.
On a similarly serious note, on craigslist, people are posting messages looking for information about friends in New Orleans.
I might as well add another thing-- why, when I normally write about stuff like "look at this old comic book I found" or "I found this movie amusing, today," am I writing blog entries about the news? First, since my nose is to the grindstone trying desperately to finish thesis, I'm not going out as much, and I don't actually do anything other than do work and check the news, these days. Next is that I'm just really, really upset at seeing a national disaster in the US being handled as though we were a third-world nation, particularly with respect to a city I've actually been to.
Posted by Dean at September 2, 2005 1:04 AM