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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: Grams A

Samaritan’s Purse is a terrific, Christian relief agency that I can recommend without reserve. It’s headed by Dr. Franklin Graham, of “we don’t want you to speak at the Pentagon for National Day of Prayer” fame.


61 posted on 05/07/2010 1:08:34 PM PDT by JoyjoyfromNJ (Psalm 121)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Posted my opinion.

Somebody's opinion, anyway.

62 posted on 05/07/2010 1:10:05 PM PDT by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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To: Nachum

They can’t blame Bush? And where’s Tipper, Al, and the Democrat Governor?


63 posted on 05/07/2010 1:21:40 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Cameras, cameras--never forget to bring your cameras)
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To: JenB

Only our basement flooded in ‘08 - we were lucky. Quite a few of our friends did lose everything.

The difference between Cedar Rapids Flood & Katrina?

Folks here saw what was coming AND GOT OUT OF THE WAY.

Folks in New Orleans also knew what was coming, but sat with their thumbs youknowwhere, expecting someone else to save them.

*I’m not going to compare looting statistics or post-disaster violent crime rates, as it could be construed as racism.


64 posted on 05/07/2010 1:25:12 PM PDT by LadyBuck (In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher')
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To: Grams A
I would like to donate to a responsible group but not Red Cross. Anyone have any suggestions?

Catholic Social Services uses 100% of your donation for the cause you give to. Salvation Army is a good charity, too.
65 posted on 05/07/2010 1:36:18 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (SPEAK UP REPUBLICANS, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU YET! IMPEACH OBAMA!)
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To: Mamzelle

Tipper and Al just bought a little place in Montecito CA. Probably out there fixing it up.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2010/04/citizen-gore.html


66 posted on 05/07/2010 1:47:34 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Mamzelle
That's what the article concludes. There's no political "hook."

All Katrina all the time was for one reason only (certainly not compassion). It was that the leftist media realized they could drop President Bush's popularity by ridiculously blaming him for a 'slow' response to the hurricane, when the opposite was true.

Very few people bothered to find out what he really had done. Fox was horrible with Katrina. Just horrible.

67 posted on 05/07/2010 4:02:11 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Nachum

For those with Face Book accounts Photos of the Navy Base in Millington, TN being flooded.

http://www.facebook.com/NSAMidSouth


68 posted on 05/07/2010 4:47:17 PM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: GailA

Millington, Flooding photos & video
http://www.wmctv.com/Global/category.asp?C=186748

Rail Bridges Out Between Memphis & Nashville
http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-rail-bridges-out,0,4332240.story

Dyersburg flooding photos
http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-water-recedes-dyersburg,0,430243.story

http://www.wreg.com/videobeta/?watchId=d58798dc-7f37-4842-aab5-88018dbbb79e


69 posted on 05/07/2010 5:22:06 PM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: Martin Tell
Other than the Disaster-Declaration, we don't need anything from the Feds. And we certainly don't need Obama flying down here, tying up the airport and the interstates just so he can get on TV looking all compassionate.

Darn straight.

70 posted on 05/07/2010 6:49:51 PM PDT by Campion
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To: LadyBuck
Folks in New Orleans also knew what was coming, but sat with their thumbs youknowwhere, expecting someone else to save them.

The last Amtrack (free fare, iirc) left NOLA pretty much empty.

A nurse who was working there told me aside from those who could not be moved (patients) and those who were there for emergency services, many of the rest stayed for the looting or to try to protect their property.

Recall people taking plasma TVs when there was no electricity, wading through floodwater...

Hardly a 'necessity'...

71 posted on 05/08/2010 7:24:33 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Nachum
Newsweek Lies
72 posted on 05/08/2010 7:26:20 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Smokin' Joe

this is a reply to everyone reading.. I can’t wait to start at the beginning to read all of this. I realize; times square bomber, oil spill, now-Greece, but this flood is of catastrophic proportion. My sister, lives near Millington likened it to Farrah’s death. I’ll read and reply as necessary. I am disappointed with the lack of coverage.


73 posted on 05/08/2010 7:33:37 PM PDT by mrebel2k
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To: secret garden; JoyjoyfromNJ; HighlyOpinionated

Thanks to all of you. Will pursue these three organizations. Red Cross is just such a no IMO for many reasons.


74 posted on 05/09/2010 5:48:11 PM 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
The practical reason is simple:

The MSM is dying, and what limited capital resources they have left have been deployed in maintaining their bunkers in New York City and Atlanta.

They have systematically shut down bureaus both at home and abroad, and have nothing left to offer except their reputations that are based on what used to be.

With the meager resources that they have left, they are squandering them on protecting their Pyrrhicly-won victory in the government, and on reporting the minor opposition incidents that they are trying to enlarge into damaging career-ending scandals in a last-ditch effort to protect the gains that they destroyed their careers for.

They know their works will be undone in 2010, and overturned in 2012, and are now on seek-and-destroy suicide missions to delay the inevitable.

-PJ

75 posted on 05/09/2010 5:58:33 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: Political Junkie Too
I forgot to add the closer comment:

They don't have the time or resources anymore for the petty run-of-the-mill stories like floods in Tennessee when they have a legacy to protect and preserve.

-PJ

76 posted on 05/09/2010 6:00:38 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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