Short [media and disasters]
- Slate on what makes news channels nauseating:
hate the lack of input from knowledgeable outsiders. Yes, let’s interview the mayor, senators, governors, police, the Red Cross, the gang from FEMA, and the Army Corps of Engineers. But what about Tulane professors, the mayor’s political foes, local journalists, business people, clergy […]?
- Roy Peter Clark, on the impression media coverage of the disaster in New Orleans leaves:
This is our fear: that civilization is a thin tissue covering the surface of an angry mob. Our collective fears of violence, of strangers, of the poor, of the dispossessed with dark skins, provoke our flight or fight response. Shoot to kill. Zero tolerance. What do you expect?
All this has profound implications for the news media.
[x]#1399 fan maandag 5 september 2005 @ 00:01:43
