[Rhodes22-list] The Media, Mass Semi-Hysteria, and The Goodness of the Human Spirit (Political)

[brad haslett]

Herb,

The outpouring of support for the victims has been
overwhelming.  I spoke with a co-worker last week that
told me about his wife, a public school teacher in the
Memphis public schools, (brave soul) and the number of
students they had absorbed and welcomed. Christian
Brothers High School, where my youngest son attended,
has taken in 25 students from NO and is providing
housing for the parents and free tuition for the boys.
 My parents church collected an amazing amount of
money given the size of the congregation and the
average means of its members.  The true soul of
America is showing but given little coverage in the
MSM.  On the other hand, the uncle of one of my oldest
son's fraternity brothers had his business looted in
Gulfport on top of his home destroyed.  I'm sure there
are thousands of stories like that.  Hopefully we
learned as a nation what I train pilots to think about
every day;  Fool with Mother Nature and she wins the
battle every time, jets are no match against severe
weather (or houses, levees, etc).  As one writer
observed, no one ever won a Pulitzer for writing about
"man's humanity to man".  We only hear the bad things.
 Don't ever forget that the primary reason for the
existence of the MSM is to sell soap.

Brad

--- Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:

> You folks will remember, although I never claimed to
> be an expert, I related that what I saw of New
> Orleans was people trying to do their best in a bad
> situation, both victims and those trying to help the
> victims. I realized that this flew in the face of
> the reports of everything that was going wrong. I
> have to admit, I also believed many of those stories
> before I left - One of my biggest fears that I
> related to my wife was that I would run into someone
> with a gun, who wanted me to give something, or do
> something, that I would be unable to do (my other
> two fears were having to deal with retrieving
> bodies, and getting down there and not actually
> being able to do anything). Fortunately, none of my
> fears materialized.
> 
> As I said before, virtually everything I saw
> confirmed that nature of the human spirit in rough
> times. Don't get me wrong, I know there were
> problems, but I didn't see them.
> 
> Probably the worst that I heard, and one of the
> things that FEMA and the Bush administration was
> roundly chastised for, was the "rampant lawlessness"
> in the SuperDome and the NO Convention Center. Mayor
> Nagin himself talked about "babies being raped". The
> coverage by the news media prompted people in the
> Dome to leave in fear of their lives.
> 
> Turns out the media had it wrong, the mayor had it
> wrong, maybe even a person or two on here had it
> wrong. 6 people died in the Dome, not hundreds. Four
> died of natural causes, one overdosed on drugs, one
> committed suicide. The story wasn't much different
> in the convention center (4 dead, one possibly by
> foul play).
> 
> The story is here :
>
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09_26.html#082732
> 
> I suspect we're going to see more and more
> sensationalist "news" cleared up. Of course, it'll
> be harder to find the buried in whatever current
> sensationalism the media is engaged in, as the truth
> comes out.
> 
> Herb Parsons
> 
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