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September 07, 2005
Mocking the Media
I meant to link this yesterday, but forgot. John from WuzzaDem has a great satire of the Hurricane Katrina media coverage. A mild content warning is attached, but if you've seen any cable news coverage of this disaster, this parody will ring true.
What bothers me most about the coverage of the storm's aftermath is how opposite it is to the media's mood before the storm. In the days before Katrina made landfall, the media seemed almost bouyant at the chance to cover a huge natural disaster. It's almost as though their reaction to the suffering is due to the guilt they feel over the so close to joy coverage they gave the storm before it caused massive destruction.
But it's late, and I'm probably just reading too much into it. Television is, after all, the eye without a brain.
UPDATE - Part Two.
Posted by slublog at September 7, 2005 12:50 AM
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