Amen. And, they are also folks who know that where they worked a week ago
doesn't exist and that they know (or feel) like they are on their own. I
noticed last night that CNN had footage on the looting. They way it looked,
dozens of people were looting, but upon closer examination (they ran it several
times), the same footage was on a 10 second "loop" simply being repeated!
Amy Bellone Hite
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> From: "Winfield, Idee C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2005/08/31 Wed PM 03:25:40 EDT
> To: "Carrigan, Jacqueline A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]>
> Subject: TEACHSOC: Re: One more thing
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> I actually heard the governor, Kathleen Blanco, say this on Larry King
> last night. She was being pushed to comment on the looting and she chose
> to point out that these are people who are hungry and thirsty and in
> need of help.
> Idee
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> The news accounts seem to be bemoaning the looting, but they fail to
> point out that these are people abandoned in the city who need to
> subsist and there is no one there to sell them what they need. One
> paper mentioned that they were stealing diapers and food and presented
> this as problematic! Jackie
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> From: [email protected] on behalf of chasinb
> Sent: Wed 8/31/2005 11:05 AM
> To: Del Thomas Ph. D.
> Cc: Brian Copp; [email protected]
> Subject: TEACHSOC: Re: One more thing
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> While media commentators were bemoaning the looting and showing the same
> footage over and over, not a word about the oil companies. There are an
> obvious number of points to be made here. Barbara Chasin
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