(about the photo)
The following report comes from CosmoBaker.com, which includes this preamble:
EDIT: The following is an email that was sent to my mother from one of her colleagues. Although I cannot substantiate the contents, after all the horror stories that I’ve heard so far, I though that this one was important to tell. Stand up [...]
Posted September 14, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: bush, catastrophe, dead bodies, email, email forward, eyewitness account, eyewitness report, forward, george bush, george w bush, hurricane, hurricane katrina, katrina, louisiana, new orleans, new orleans louisiana, nola, police brutality, shame, w. 5 Comments.
Reuters: FEMA accused of censorship:
“It’s impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story,” said Larry Siems of the PEN American Center, an authors’ group that defends free expression.
Brian Williams’ MSNBC Nightly News Blog:
While we were attempting [...]
Posted September 9, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: brian williams, bush, bushh, catastrophe, censor, censor this, censorship, dead bodies, death, fema, george bush, george w bush, government, government censors, government censorship, hurricane, hurricane katrina, joshua micah marshall, katrina, louisiana, media, msnbc nightly news, national guard, new orleans, nola, pen american center, shame, talking points memo, w. 2 Comments.
Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss answered questions for On The Media’s Brooke Gladstone. Amoss and his staff have been covering the catastrophe in New Orleans as only locals can.
Some of the best reporting I’ve seen on this has come from the Times-Picayune, and I was quite amazed when I discovered the electronic edition Wednesday. Despite the [...]
Posted September 4, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: catastrophe, electronic edition, exile, hurrican katrina, hurricane, interview, jim amoss, katrina, locals, louisiana, new orleans, newspaper, newspaper in exile, on the media, refugees, times picayune, timespicayune. One Comment.
DefenseTech’s Noah Shachtman writes:
Organizing thousands and thousands of people, in hellish conditions and in a hurry, is tough work. Let’s take that as a given. But still: We’re now a work week into a natural disaster that had been forecast for years, and New Orleans “is being run by thugs,” the city’s emergency [...]
Posted September 2, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: bush, defensetech, dhs, disaster, donations, emergency, fema, flood, george bush, george w bush, gulf coast, homeland security, hurricane, hurricane katrina, katrina, louisiana, new orleans, pat robertson, shame, w, wtf. 3 Comments.
I don’t watch TV, so I haven’t seen many images of the flooding in New Orleans until I found these. Amazingly, The Times Picayune is publishing PDF editions during disaster. The hurricane and flood damage are truly scary, but the worst news is on page five, which tells of widespread looting:
Law enforcement efforts to contain [...]
Posted August 31, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Photoblog, Politics & Controversy, Travel. Tags: disaster, flood, flood damage, gulf coast, hurricane, hurricane katrina, katrina, looters, looting, louisiana, new orleans, new orleans la, photo, times picayune, timespicayune, wal mart, walmart. One Comment.
Jake Halpern’s Braving Home (also in softcover) easily took my interest. Here’s how John Moe described it for Amazon.com:
As a cub reporter at The New Republic, Jake Halpern earned the unofficial job title of Bad Homes Correspondent. Braving Home tells his stories of places where people really ought not live and the people who live [...]
Posted July 7, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Travel. Tags: alaska, braving home, california, danger, dangerous places, grand isle, grand isle louisiana, hawaii, home, homemaking, jake halpern, kilauea, kilauea hawaii, lava side inn, louisiana, malibu, malibu california, north carolina, princeville, princeville north carolina, underwater town, whittier, whittier alaska. One Comment.
