Hurricane Katrina

[Blade]

That's the best you can come up with, Coach?

Oh, my!

:lol:

 

[millersnose]

is that the answer you came up with blade?

oh my!

so you will not disclose your source

fair enough

it must be embarrasing

not the KKK again i hope

 

[Blade]

The source? What source do you want? The source IS the clip, sunshine ](*,) Keep on clutching, mate.

That dung's getting deeper 'n deeper, huh Coach? :lol:

 

[millersnose]

is that the answer you came up with blade?

oh my!

so you will not disclose your source

fair enough

it must be embarrasing

not the KKK again i hope

 

[Blade]

Journalist Groups Protest FEMA Ban on Photos of Dead

NEW YORK: Forced to defend what some critics consider its slow response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from New Orleans.

FEMA, which is leading the rescue efforts, rejected requests from journalists to accompany rescue boats as they went out to search for storm victims, Reuters reported.

A FEMA spokeswoman told the wire service that space was needed on the rescue boats and assured Reuters that "the recovery of the victims is being treated with dignity and the utmost respect."

"We have requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the media," the spokeswoman told Reuters via e-mail.

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Geee , I wonder why that'd be . . .

 

[ibeme]

I can understand that. No need to splash photos of dead people over the papers to know that there are dead people.

 

[millersnose]

because journalist groups want their snuff shots?

but blade you still havent produced a source for the previous peice

you arent running away like you did when you posted the stuff from the KKK are you?

 

[Tighthead]

Geee , I wonder why that'd be . .

FEMA doesn't have an obligation to take photographers with them as they perform this task, and I also don't think it's too much for them to ask people to show a bit of sensitivity to survivors and family members.

 

[Blade]

Yeah Coach . . . I'm runing away because I'm quaking in my boots.

BTW, thanks for that thread you posted earlier today directed to me. You really shouldn't bother . . . because I don't!

 

[Blade]

FEMA doesn't have an obligation to take photographers with them as they perform this task, and I also don't think it's too much for them to ask people to show a bit of sensitivity to survivors and family members.

Fair enough. But you think, just maybe, it also has something to do with FEMA protecting the government?

Ya think?

 

[millersnose]

great source blade

real political heavyweight stuff

you must feel real intellectual when reading it

with biting satire like this

 

[ibeme]

Fair enough. But you think, just maybe, it also has something to do with FEMA protecting the government?

Ya think?

I'm sure there'll be plenty of news helicopters on hand to get all of the shots they want. I don't think banning them from the recovery vessel is an issue.

 

[Tighthead]

Fair enough. But you think, just maybe, it also has something to do with FEMA protecting the government?

Ya think?

In all honesty I don't. Everyone knows that people are dead, whether we have some gory pitcutres or not. It is probably appropriate to demonstrate a modicum of sensitivity in this situation, which is what FEMA are asking photogs to do.

There are plenty of opportunites for journalists to take photos of dead people, if that's what they want to do, but FEMA isn't obliged to waste positions on thier boats to give them such opportunities.

 

[Blade]

It is probably appropriate to demonstrate a modicum of sensitivity in this situation

Agree, most definitely, Tight.

But I still say FEMA is doing this to protect the goverment . . . among other reasons.

Agree to disagree.

 

[ibeme]

great source blade

real political heavyweight stuff

Who gives a sh*t about the source if the clip is real?

 

[millersnose]

Who gives a sh*t about the source if the clip is real?

because it may be as edited as the text was

i see it all the time ibeme

snip a little out and change the meaning

stuey raper was peiced commenting on the breakdown of a players car this week with the words "i wouldnt put it past them" in an edit by the "journo" to make it look like he blamed the dragons

the clip unfortunately still had stuey with his mullet which he had cut off 2 weks ago

 

[Blade]

I'm sure there'll be plenty of news helicopters on hand to get all of the shots they want. I don't think banning them from the recovery vessel is an issue.

Yeah, but the Big Boyz (CNN, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, CNBC etc...) won't be showing these images from here on in.

I betcha.

There are several blogs and other pages where these images are rampant. Quite disturbing, actually.

 

[millersnose]

Agree, most definitely, Tight.

But I still say FEMA is doing this to protect the goverment . . . among other reasons.

Agree to disagree.

lol

will young tighty let blade off the hook?

i think he will

 

[Blade]

Let him be, ibeme. Let him believe what he likes.

That's all he has to hold on to. Don't ruin his arvo.

 

[Tighthead]

But I still say FEMA is doing this to protect the goverment . . . among other reasons.

I don't really see how making a simple request is protecting the government.

In any case, I think that the head of FEMA (a political appointee and woefully ill-equipped for the job) will be thrown to the sharks by the Bush administration in the wash up from this disaster, so he probably shouldn't be 'protecting the government' anyway.