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Photo Captions From Katrina Stir Debate
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| 9/2/5
| JOCELYN NOVECK
Posted on 09/02/2005 5:09:15 PM PDT by SmithL
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I call it looting, too.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:09:15 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
To: SmithL
Somebody seems to be making a something out of a whole lot of nothing. Were the captions written by the same person? If not, perhaps it simply a matter of the philosophy of the different caption writers?
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:14:56 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(TAKE CNN OFF YOUR REMOTE - THEY ARE THE ENEMY OF THE US)
To: SmithL
Or stealing, or robbing, or larceny. Looting fits best.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:14:59 PM PDT
by
sine_nomine
(Protect the weakest of the weak - the unborn babies.)
To: SmithL
And in other news a massive hurricane took out a major U.S. city. Thousands may be dead.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:18:06 PM PDT
by
AbeKrieger
(Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
To: msnimje
Somebody seems to be making a something out of a whole lot of nothing. Were the captions written by the same person? If not, perhaps it simply a matter of the philosophy of the different caption writers?Read the entire story, The black guy was actually SEEN looting, whereas the two white people were SEEN wading through the water and FINDING the stuff floating around in the water.
There is NOTHING here but liberal hot air...
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:19:33 PM PDT
by
Paradox
(Just because we are not perfect, does not mean we are not good.)
To: SmithL
Both are looters in my book.
Find the caption writer and fire her (or him). Problem solved.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:30:59 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: SmithL
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:34:27 PM PDT
by
guitarnick40
(When a liberal is in doubt, all they do is scream and shout racism.)
To: SmithL
I keep seeing this pop up. The woman is black, too.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:37:38 PM PDT
by
CindyDawg
To: CindyDawg
It hurts to see these people in that water as tho they were simply walking along a sidewalk on a normal day.
Surreal.
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posted on
09/02/2005 5:56:54 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
(MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH ~ A NATIONAL TREASURE)
To: SmithL
Considering the extend of this catastrophe, I have no problem with those taking food. It would go to waste otherwise, because much of it is perishable. Too, those taking 'some' clothing; many lost everything except the clothes they were wearing.
One report said nearly half of those arriving on the buses in Houston Astrodome and related had no shoes. One Houston area outreach effort is to help provide them shoes.
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posted on
09/02/2005 6:01:41 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: msnimje
re: a matter of the philosophy of the different caption writers?
Speaking as one who has been out there doing the news photos and writing the captions I can tell you exactly how it happens and it's really not a matter of racism or philosophy. Usually it has to do with the circumstances surrounding the photo. In the one case the shooter is covering breaking news where dozens of people are breaking into businesses and taking items. The setting of the news story is the looting and when you get a shot of people who have come out of a business carrying items you know first hand the circumstances of the image. In the second case you are roaming around looking for pictures and down the street comes a couple pulling a tub filled with items. You really don't know how they came to have the items in their possession so you ask and are told "we found them". You don't see anyone looting, so you simple repeat what you were told. Believe me, shooting breaking news and spot news is way too stressful to be trying to use your captions as a way to express your racism! In a typical day the photographer will take several hundred photos and will be on a strict deadline to find the shots that tell the story and to caption them. A picture that does not get on the wire until late in the evening stands a good chance of never being published. Takes time to crop the photos, color correct them, caption them and then transmit them to your publication or to the wire service. When you write the caption you have a number of concerns such as identifying the people in the shot, spelling, adherence to the AP style book (not to mention your own publication's style book) and the accuracy of the info overall. Two or three mistakes in captions in a single year might well cost you your job with the paper. The style thing is especially tricky, like when you refer to a city do you also refer to the state? Are you certain your description of what's in the picture jives with what the writer doing the story is saying in the article?
This PC thing has gone WAY too far!
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posted on
09/02/2005 6:01:48 PM PDT
by
jwpjr
To: OldFriend
I'm sorry. I'm on too many threads:')
To: OldFriend
Trying again. Yeah it is, isn't it. Any idea how long until they get them out?
To: CindyDawg
The misery will go on for a very long time.
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posted on
09/02/2005 6:11:35 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
(MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH ~ A NATIONAL TREASURE)
To: jwpjr
No country is more than 2 weeks away from a revolution.
To: SmithL
If the 'looter' left his name and point of contact for the owner to find and indicated hiw intention of compensation, I tend to find no fault in their behavior.
There will be a number of perspectives on the taking of property in the disaster area. Some are innocent, some are guilty, but I suspect those who are more guilty might cause the deaths of others, while those who are innocent are acting accountably and righteously.
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posted on
09/02/2005 6:26:45 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
(<;^))
To: SmithL
There is something odd about the discrepancy in the captions.
People have offered reasonable explanations but it still looks very bad.
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posted on
09/02/2005 7:04:13 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: Sally Golightly
No country is more than 2 weeks away from a revolution.
Huh ????
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posted on
09/02/2005 7:50:37 PM PDT
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: festus
Sometimes written as "no country is more than 3 meals from a revolution". When things go wrong we look after our own survival.
I know that when my babies were babies rather than parents I, if placed in a bad enough situation, would do whatever was necessary to ensure their survival.
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