WWLTV: National Media has OVEREXAGGERATED the looting problem

[Nikki Stone 1]

10:34 A.M. - Hoss: Stories of armed, roving gangs going around town looting every business they come across have been overexaggerated by the national media.

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html


(Not a real surprise of course...)

[rsmith6621]

1. National Media has OVEREXAGGERATED the looting problem

This help detract attention away from the biggest looter of all......Do you know who I mean?????

[Just Me]

4. Oh, yeah. That would be our oil-diggers and arms dealers in charge.

:mad:

[Karmadillo]

2. Look! Over there! Looters! What? Bush cut flood prevention funding? Look!

Over there! Looters!

[mom cat]

10. bingo!

[Cha]

3. That's Michael Moore's point in

"Bowling For Columbine"..the media likes to instill FEAR.


And Green Day's point in "AMerican Idiot"..

"Don't wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America"

[livetohike]

5. They keep showing the same three guys from the other day

No new footage? It supports their agenda which is to make it seem like anarchy is happening. A slap in the face to the mayor of NO, etc.

Sickening.

[rodeodance]

6. yes, they keep re-running the inital scenes when it was raining -right

after the storm had passed. over and over.

[randr]

7. It should be obvious that the looters and media cameras

are only present in very small sections of the city where you can still get around.
Over a million people without homes and they are focusing on a few hundred.
This should go down as a text book example of media manipulation of reality

[rocktivity]

8. I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!!!

I mean, THINK about--where could a looter plug in a stolen TV set?

:crazy:
rocknation

[mom cat]

9. Check out this thread... I am sure that some bad things are happening,

but the worst crimes have been the Bushco crouds intentional neglect of our infrastructure!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4542555

mom cat (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-01-05 05:32 AM
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The "looter problem" is a subtrafuge to divert attention from the
"miserable failure" of dim son and his handlers. It is the Willie Horton defence.
In a pinch, you can always appeal to fear and or racism to prop up the elites.

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[zulchzulu]

11. WDSU-TV coverage has been pretty hyped on "looters"

Mayb they are just exhuasted, but they keep showing the same video and are getting outraged. Norm Robinson has been somewhat timid about bringing it up but the Asian woman has been pretty clueless about why some people were going in stores for food and water.

Having worked at WWL about a dozen years ago, there was always a rivalry between WDSU and WWL...maybe Mike Hoss was inferring on WDSU's sloppy reporting.

[moondust]

12. Republican times, Republican media.

Property crimes, "crimes against materialism", are very, very serious in Greedworld.