The perfect storm
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Joe Blow
08/29/05
Bush is powerless to control what is about to happen to this nation. While he still thinks that he can manufacture his own reality, he is about to receive another object lesson in humility. Reality therapy, isn't it great!
Link: http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/blow/blow10.html
The perfect storm
CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd
09/01/05
There was the already infamous juxtaposition of captions for wire service photos, where depictions of essentially the same scene desperate people wading through flood waters, clutching plastic bags full of groceries were given markedly different spins. In one picture, a white couple are described as struggling along after finding bread and soda at a grocery store. But beneath an almost identical photo of a young black man with a bag of groceries, we are told that a 'looter' wades through the streets after robbing a grocery store. In the photo I saw, this evil miscreant also had a gasp! pack of diapers under his arm." [editor's note: And black or white, if the people had been wearing company patches on their shirts, they'd have been called what they actually are -- salvage crews - TLK]
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd09012005.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Author: Joe Blow
08/29/05
Bush is powerless to control what is about to happen to this nation. While he still thinks that he can manufacture his own reality, he is about to receive another object lesson in humility. Reality therapy, isn't it great!
Link: http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/blow/blow10.html
The perfect storm
CounterPunch
by Chris Floyd
09/01/05
There was the already infamous juxtaposition of captions for wire service photos, where depictions of essentially the same scene desperate people wading through flood waters, clutching plastic bags full of groceries were given markedly different spins. In one picture, a white couple are described as struggling along after finding bread and soda at a grocery store. But beneath an almost identical photo of a young black man with a bag of groceries, we are told that a 'looter' wades through the streets after robbing a grocery store. In the photo I saw, this evil miscreant also had a gasp! pack of diapers under his arm." [editor's note: And black or white, if the people had been wearing company patches on their shirts, they'd have been called what they actually are -- salvage crews - TLK]
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd09012005.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 30. Aug, 14:04
