RealAudio for This American Life - After the Flood now available!

[xynthee]

This was discussed on http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4726664

The RealAudio is now available at http://www.thislife.org/ra/296.ram

This is the most disturbing thing I've ever heard on NPR.

Please spread this around!!

P.S.: I'm at work, so I can't actually listen to the file, which means I can't confirm the link works or that it's the entire story (I'm paranoid they're going to do some heavy "editing").

[xynthee]

1. kick!!

[xynthee]

2. Another self-kick . . . .

Hopefully this has been posted elsewhere, and that's why no one has replied to this thread (I've gotten a couple nominations for greatest page (thank you!), but no replies).

I just want everyone to hear this!! It's jaw-dropping!! The "good" shit starts about 13 minutes in.

Some "highlights":

1) Every four hours or so, they would tell everyone to line up for the buses (that never came). "The buses are coming" they kept saying. "Like they were doing drills or something", according to the eyewitness (13:40).

2) The NO police were stealing vehicles to help evacuate people.

3) "They're going to kill us" was the rumor spreading through the Convention Center

4) The police and water trucks kept passing them by without stopping. "It was almost as though they were taunting us," according to the eyewitness.

5) Rapes and murder rumors: "I didn't see anyone getting raped or hurt; I just saw people dying."

6) The "criminals" were the ones getting the juice for the babies, helping the old people, getting clothes for people after wading through the sewage that was the Convention Center. They started "looting" juice for babies, water, food, raincoats so they could all be seen by each other (very well-organized).

7) Gretna police were shooting at people who tried to cross the bridge out of NO (old news to us, but good to hear it on MSM).

8) "If I ever get out of here, it's not gonna be alive" was the popular sentiment.

I can't do this clip justice; it's unbelievable! I can't use enough exclamation points to convey how !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is!!!

After hearing this, my skeptic husband is a believer! If you have any so-called liberal friends or family members who are unwilling to believe anything that isn't on MSM, here you go!

There's NO WAY anyone could believe all this was due to incompetence after hearing this clip. NO WAY WHATSOEVER!!

[CarolNYC]

3. From the TAL newsletter....

Another Katrina show this week...and an interesting note on last week's...

THIS WEEKEND, 9/16-18:
This Is Not My Beautiful House. Stories about Katrina refugees at
the Houston Astrodome looking for a place -- any place -- to live. As
a half-dozen families,
including a pregnant woman having contractions and another with a
four-week-old baby, are driven around the city, they confront
potential neighbors who don't seem to want them, and neighbors they
themselves don't want. Also, a New Orleans man sneaks back to his
house to rescue some belongings, and finds it doesn't feel at all
like home.

____
FEMA AND THE FLOOD. Many people have emailed asking about the FEMA
story that was in our promos for last week's show. It wasn't in the
show. "What happened?" people wrote. "Did you get censored?"

We weren't censored. But several key people we were hoping to
interview for that story -- former FEMA employees, who we were hoping
would talk about changes they witnessed at the agency since 9/11 --
ended up turning down our interview requests. It's possible we'll
find other FEMA employees, past and present, to speak on the record,
but as the show went to air, we felt that we didn't have enough new
insights about FEMA that hadn't been reported elsewhere, so we
decided to hold the story.

And by the way, there isn't really anyone in public radio who
functions as a censor or even as an overall editorial director. We
have complete editorial control over our show. It goes up onto the
public radio satellite and public radio stations download it and put
it on the air. Those stations are free to kill a show if they find
the editorial content questionable. It's their radio station and
their broadcast license at stake, after all. But no station has ever
pulled one of our shows for its political content. -- Ira Glass

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8. If they've never had a story pulled by a station, they're not trying hard

enough.

:)

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4. Also at Audible for d/l to portable devices

This is one of the best TALs and they've had many great ones.

:kick:

[CarolNYC]

5. TAL

They have had many great ones, haven't they? One of my favorites is still the Roshamon one that aired shortly after 9/11...

[msgadget]

6. YES, that one was great too!

Carol, thanks for posting the link because I remember thinking it'd probably be good for DUers to hear when I got my email regarding the newest available edition at Audible. NPR sometimes gets bashed here because they accept money from Wally World but, imo, save for some slow and iffy coverage regarding the recount in Ohio, they've remained without peer.

:bounce:Long live WNYC!!:bounce:

[1932]

7. This episode deserves a Peabody