http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2005/08/31/bad-things-come-in-clusters/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:31:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2005/08/31/bad-things-come-in-clusters/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Josh Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:06:02 +0000 http://www.levjoy.com/2005/08/bad-things-come-in-clusters/#comment-114 Sitting here hearing constant updates from the Gulf area on the radio, and reading constantly updated news reports online, it's hard to underestimate the devastation. If that has come across, my apologies. And maybe many more people will die. But while this disaster is terrible, disasters shouldn't compete for the news media's attention based on the numbers of dead, but sadly, they do. My goal here is to critique news media coverage, and the Iraq story is being overshadowed by the New Orleans story. I'd like to see them both get coverage. Sitting here hearing constant updates from the Gulf area on the radio, and reading constantly updated news reports online, it’s hard to underestimate the devastation. If that has come across, my apologies. And maybe many more people will die. But while this disaster is terrible, disasters shouldn’t compete for the news media’s attention based on the numbers of dead, but sadly, they do. My goal here is to critique news media coverage, and the Iraq story is being overshadowed by the New Orleans story. I’d like to see them both get coverage.

]]> http://www.levjoy.com/blog/2005/08/31/bad-things-come-in-clusters/comment-page-1/#comment-113 sally19 Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:57:12 +0000 http://www.levjoy.com/2005/08/bad-things-come-in-clusters/#comment-113 You completely underestimate the death total here in the Gulf Coast and the seriousness of the situation. The WHOLE city of New Orleans is completely devastated and there are many more than 700 people who will die they just don't know how many yet because they are not able to get that far, whether to locate them and because they are still dying. Please don't be so cavalier in your noble concern for the difficulties in Iraq. You completely underestimate the death total here in the Gulf Coast and the seriousness of the situation. The WHOLE city of New Orleans is completely devastated and there are many more than 700 people who will die they just don’t know how many yet because they are not able to get that far, whether to locate them and because they are still dying. Please don’t be so cavalier in your noble concern for the difficulties in Iraq.

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