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Kathryncramer.com a Katrina clearinghouse

“On Camera Food Distribution “a Completely Staged Event”

In disasters since the invention of the news media, in each era coverage of disasters is highly mediated by the coverage of the most recent war. (I wrote an essay about this once, which I don’t have to hand at the moment.) This is the era of “embedded” journalists and media complicity. I can’t find words of what to say about this:

There was a striking discrepancy between the CNN International report on the Bush visit to the New Orleans disaster zone, yesterday, and reports of the same event by German TV.”

Her site was mentioned in the New York Times today - I hope her host doesn’t crash under the load. The link to her Katrina archive is here.

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