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Newsweek Offers Offensive Explanation For Why Media Ignored Nashville Flood
newsbusters ^ | 5/7/10 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 05/07/2010 10:30:51 AM PDT by Nachum

NewsBusters on Wednesday shared a truly heartbreaking video with its readers dealing with the Nashville flood that so many people in the nation hadn't heard about due to the media's focus on the Gulf oil spill and Faisal Shahzad.

News outlets are beginning to try to explain to their patrons why such a devastating event got so over-shadowed.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: explanation; left; msm; newsweek; offensive; offers
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To: Nachum

I am surprised that they haven’t trotted out their dead horse of “climate change”, maybe they realize that that doesn’t work anymore, so these climate events aren’t worth noticing, especially when they can’t advance their narrative.


21 posted on 05/07/2010 11:06:26 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: ilovesarah2012; Genoa
Because it affected mostly white people?

So did Katrina. But I suppose you believe what the TV tells you.

22 posted on 05/07/2010 11:10:44 AM PDT by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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To: JenB

“Yeah, I lived in Cedar Rapids two years back when they flooded, badly, historically badly, thousands lost everything. Almost no coverage in the national media... again, all nice boring quiet white people, no looting or rioting...”

My wife had some distant relatives (in miles and blood relation), who sent out emails showing the pictures of the flood and asking why the Federal government didn’t rescue them.


23 posted on 05/07/2010 11:10:46 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: central_va

Not sure what that picture is supposed to convey. Hitting the screw on the head?


24 posted on 05/07/2010 11:12:39 AM PDT by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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To: Romulus

I think that’s one of those gripper nails.


25 posted on 05/07/2010 11:16:09 AM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Nachum

The flood wasn’t covered because it couldn’t be spun to the Democrats’ political advantage. If there was some kind of liberal stake in it, it would have been covered.


26 posted on 05/07/2010 11:23:53 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Forty years of electing leftist fools to Congress have culminated in Nancy Pelosi.)
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To: Nachum

gee...I wonder why.....

27 posted on 05/07/2010 11:28:03 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: ilovesarah2012

We have a winner!


28 posted on 05/07/2010 11:29:40 AM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Nachum

Because blacks weren’t standing on their rooftops and the pundits weren’t there screaming where’s the government help!!!

Of course that all happened before the ‘age of Obama.’


29 posted on 05/07/2010 11:30:04 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Not just any white people; Conservative, God-fearing, Constitution-loving white people. No votes to pander to here...


30 posted on 05/07/2010 11:30:45 AM PDT by diplomatic_immunity
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To: Genoa

I see you don’t have much experience with hand tools.


31 posted on 05/07/2010 11:35:10 AM PDT by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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To: Nachum

John Rich has written a song dedicated to them and is encouraging donations to Red Cross. You can download it on his website www.johnrich.com. I would like to donate to a responsible group but not Red Cross. Anyone have any suggestions?


32 posted on 05/07/2010 11:36:23 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Nachum

Hickman CO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rzp-DHQLQA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORsSPTumm9I

Dyer Co Dyersburg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBr297p-5Vk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5elxGUYvmQ8

Sumner Co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShYDrYXs6K0

Clarksville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_usIjjGfY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7t8OYyB24

West Tennessee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQEQSfYxKc

Jackson, TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blX4URAWskQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niwnoAHcl-U&feature=related
Rebel Cove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPh0vVoAYek&feature=related

Humboldt, TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPJZDrU1S_w&feature=related

Millington, TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrIVHym7PQ

NG responds to AR & TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BkKa9NoTNg


33 posted on 05/07/2010 11:37:36 AM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: Nachum

I liked the YouTube presentation at the link in the first paragraph.
First collection of pictures I have seen on the flood.


34 posted on 05/07/2010 11:38:04 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: Nachum

Because mostly white neighborhoods were flooded.


35 posted on 05/07/2010 11:38:07 AM PDT by RockinRight (Congress and the President can (and should) be replaced. America can't.)
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To: Romulus

According to Wikipedia -

Nashville -

White 64.8% Black 28.3%

New Orleans -

White 28.05% Black 67.25%


36 posted on 05/07/2010 11:38:27 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Nachum

Telethon thread, and lots more links to other areas hit by the 52 county flooding and 13 small twisters...NO COVERAGE of MS or AR has been done either, and they were hit just as hard with both flash flood and twisters.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2508747/posts


37 posted on 05/07/2010 11:39:03 AM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: Romulus; Genoa
I see you don’t have much experience with hand tools.

Oops!

Genoa is right. It's a ring-shank nail, FRiend.


38 posted on 05/07/2010 11:40:42 AM PDT by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I volunteer with the Red Cross and set up a shelter here last Saturday. We had very few people stay there, in spite of there being hundreds of homes flooded in our town. Mostly they would check in, then a family that wasn’t affected would come in and “adopt” them.

At another shelter, it was mostly people who got stuck on the freeway who stayed there.

At a third, there were a whole bunch of people.... but their county was virtually an island, and we had trouble getting them supplies. It finally took the National Guard to get them food and water.

In one community that was underwater, they didn’t wait for the government entities to save them. Anybody who had a boat was out helping. I heard a report that the police and fire departments did over 600 water rescues in 24 hours. The locals knew not to wait.

So, you are right. We are a self sufficient group, doing what needs to be done, handling “life”, helping our neighbors. Of course, that doesn’t make for good “news”.


39 posted on 05/07/2010 11:40:54 AM PDT by Grammy (When someone takes the fruits of your labor, they are taking a part of your life. ( MrB))
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To: Nachum

Obama doesn’t like American people.


40 posted on 05/07/2010 11:44:24 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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