"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Gary Drescher wrote:
"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Yes, that is what the liberal media would have you believe and that is
why you mainly see black people on the roofs. It doesn't help the agenda
nearly as much to show a balanced cross section of those in desparate
straits.


Huh? Are you actually not aware that the vast majority of people stranded
in New Orleans are black? You think the journalists are just hiding the
pictures of the white folks when they pan their cameras down the streets
or around the stadium?

Majority, yes, 100%, no. I've not seen a white or Hispanic person yet
shown on a roof waiting. Are you actually not aware that the media shows
what is controversial rather than what actually is?

The news media craves dramatic imagery. Every available photograph of people
stranded on the roofs of nearly submerged houses is dramatic enough to get
wide circulation. Do you really suppose the media is suppressing the photos
of white people on rooftops?

More importantly, do you have a shred of *evidence* to support such a
supposition? (For example, have you found such suppressed photos in the
right-wing news outlets or blogs?) And can you explain why the images of the
hurricane victims more generally (apart from the handful of available
rooftop photos) do *not* exclude the minority of white victims, if there's a
liberal conspiracy to show only the black ones?

It's not enough that the victims of this natural disaster are being blamed
by some. You've even figured out a way to blame the news media for *showing*
the victims if the victims are disproportionately black.

--Gary