Finger pointing and the blame game

[azurite]

Ugh, I hate all the political-based responses to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. The representative for the White House keeps accusing this one MSNBC/Newsweek reporter that he was finger pointing and playing the blame game (his exact words, repeated to infinity). The guy was only asking a yes-or-no question. -_-; Then again, I'm biased because I'm a journalist-in-training, I guess. Mamono, what are your thoughts on recent coverage?

Well, if it seems/feels like (on my end, anyway) that I've been dead, it's because I've been trying to get my new Dell Inspiron 6000 to work... to no avail. I upgraded to Win XP Pro the night I got the laptop, but apparently something went wrong in the install, and since I didn't buy the Pro from Dell, I have to reformat and reinstall the Home OS, and then bug Microsoft for help regarding the XP Pro upgrade. I won't have to reinstall much:
* Firefox (bookmarks, extensions, themes)
* Thunderbird (old email -still on this comp- and account settings)
* LimeWire
* iTunes 5
* Winamp

Also, no one from betasquad has said yay or nay to my idea of having a website/forum (something I originally proposed to nekokilala), which kind of bums me out. I have tons of 30kisses claims to catch up on, and I'm wondering if there might be an easier way of letting svelterose update when I'm not available.

I want to post WDKY18 --tonight, if possible, now that it's pretty smoothed out. I'm spending so much time (or what FEELS like a lot of time) at school, studying, at work (ugh, especially tomorrow!) and trying to clean up my room (I got most of the closest sorted out; now I have to put my desk papers and such together). The comp is running strangely slow right now (great, just what I need), so I'm going to finish this entry, install the latest Java in the hopes that it'll fix my future Apple.com downloads, and restart. More later, perhaps.

Comments

[svelterose.livejournal.com]

We can just create a community that's exclusively used by the adminstrators/moderators and replace the 30kisses info links with those?

I think...

[azurite]

So if I created something like 30kisses_updates or thereabouts, I could give you mod access to it, and I could move the Claims post (linked on the Info page and in the Memories) there, and you could edit...? Or... *scratches head* The thing is, even if you are a mod of a community, you can't edit a post you didn't make. So I'm not sure how to go about doing it. We could always post the claims on the User Info page, though.

Re: I think...

[svelterose.livejournal.com]

By the LJ user of 30kisses_updates, I mean that we would all have access to the main account thereby, allowing us to edit the posts made by that account. It wouldn't be a community where we all post but rather, an account we could all access under that username.

But I like the User Info page better because it's much less hassle. ^_^ My vote for the User Info page.

[rhapsody-dragon.livejournal.com]

I saw this earlier and meant to respond but oy... hectic life. _^_ I should be resurfacing to LJ tonight... but anyway...about the coverage...

I think people need to let up on the reporters a bit for trying to get the information... because it's NOT easy at all... and they need to be pushy and direct with those hard questions.

However, I have noticed that there seems to be a trend in showing certain things to the public and exaggerating those... Like... they showed one of the looters...and I got the impression that everyone in the area was looting and doing bad things. That it was awful... When of course that's just a small portion of it. (Someone I know mentioned how they kept showing the same clip on all the news channels...)

What annoys me is one man who was bringing civil rights into this... he was bickering with a newscaster about how all the minorities were called refugees or something... when in truth all the Katrina victims were being called refugees... x__x It was messed up to be sure... but I just didn't like how they pulled that issue into a disaster... Everyone needs the help. It shouldn't matter what they look like.

X__X It does disturb me though... My mom was talking about how a reporter 'watched a woman die in front of him' because she wasn't getting help from anyone.... Why didn't the reporter help instead of reporting about it?? I know that doesn't extend to all journlists, but it was just one disturbing example...


Er...done ranting. _^_