Odd... CNN

Something seems off. I’m watching CNN right now and for the past 24 hours or so they’ve had a scroll on the left hand side of the screen, showing images of missing children of the Katrina fiasco. Why is it that when I watch footage of the Katrina refugees about 90% of them are black? And yet, somehow about 75% (well maybe half) of the children in the scroll bar are white? Maybe it’s just me being cynical.

Katrina Blows the Shit to the Fan

The uneasy paradox which so many live with in this country - of being first-and-foremost rugged individuals, out to plunder what they can and paying as little tax as they can get away with, while at the same time believing that America is a robust, model society - has reached a crisis point this week.

This is an excerpt from an insightful article at the BBC found here. Read the rest of the article. Go on. If this event ever becomes the political front that I would like to think it would, I hope it will be drawn up along these lines.

30 Mintues of CNN

I think i'm going to shoot myself. Why CBC. Why!!

Wow this New Orleans fiasco is really getting serious. I just started getting interested this morning after hearing a couple of rather shocking rumours; the CBC has been out of order so to speak of late. Pathetic yes, I have to admit I’ve all but stopped watching the news since. Alas, this was the wrong time of all times to stop watching the news. So, since I’m home after a ten hour shift and there’s road crews outside my window preventing me from sleeping, I’ve decided to scan CNN on the web and TV to figure out just what’s going on. HOLY SHIT! What a mess. (I hope this impression has nothing to do with American press sensationalism.) There are people getting shot! Louisiana is turning into a killzone.

Well, let’s put this into a naïve first year undergrads concept of context. I’m a post-structuralist, but I’m also a structuralist, and thus I consider at least some human behaviour to be symptomatic of prevailing social-political-economic conditions: people just don’t go nuts and start looting and shooting people. There is something inherent in the American psyche that creates incentives. In my last post I associate this loosely with capitalism. In this post I’m not going to bother hypothesising on what these conditions are, rather, I’m going to pose questions that set up a compare and contrast. Did this happen when the tsunami hit?” What are the differences? Why?

Note: 30 minutes of CNN and I just about want to vomit at the generic look of their anchors and reporters. God bless the BBC and its appreciation of ugly people. Who would think after watching CNN that hotness and intelligence or perspective don’t coincide.

Note, after note: Oh my god! The more I watch the more I want to puke! They’re praising Coca-Cola and various other fats [fast] food corporates for sending aid to the astrodome. Shoot me! If the hurricane hasn’t killed them maybe we can with fatty foods. (Has anyone else noticed just how many really fuking fat people are victims? I don’t remember seeing any fat tsunami victims.)

Note again: Please! I can’t take it! Somebody shoot the anchorwoman before her chiselled jaw line kills me first. No wait let her over emphasize just one more word!

Note: How many more black people have to die! Seriously, what’s with everyone being black, I thought the US was an egalitarian society. Seriously, that’s what they told me. Why are all the poor people black? Are there no poor white people in Southern US? Ahh! There’s that anchorwoman again!! Expel the demons!