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Mon Sep-12-05 12:31 PM
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RealAudio for This American Life - After the Flood now available! |
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This was discussed on http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4726664The RealAudio is now available at http://www.thislife.org/ra/296.ramThis is the most disturbing thing I've ever heard on NPR. Please spread this around!! P.S.: I'm at work, so I can't actually listen to the file, which means I can't confirm the link works or that it's the entire story (I'm paranoid they're going to do some heavy "editing").
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Mon Sep-12-05 05:44 PM
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2. Another self-kick . . . . |
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Hopefully this has been posted elsewhere, and that's why no one has replied to this thread (I've gotten a couple nominations for greatest page (thank you!), but no replies).
I just want everyone to hear this!! It's jaw-dropping!! The "good" shit starts about 13 minutes in.
Some "highlights":
1) Every four hours or so, they would tell everyone to line up for the buses (that never came). "The buses are coming" they kept saying. "Like they were doing drills or something", according to the eyewitness (13:40).
2) The NO police were stealing vehicles to help evacuate people.
3) "They're going to kill us" was the rumor spreading through the Convention Center
4) The police and water trucks kept passing them by without stopping. "It was almost as though they were taunting us," according to the eyewitness.
5) Rapes and murder rumors: "I didn't see anyone getting raped or hurt; I just saw people dying."
6) The "criminals" were the ones getting the juice for the babies, helping the old people, getting clothes for people after wading through the sewage that was the Convention Center. They started "looting" juice for babies, water, food, raincoats so they could all be seen by each other (very well-organized).
7) Gretna police were shooting at people who tried to cross the bridge out of NO (old news to us, but good to hear it on MSM).
8) "If I ever get out of here, it's not gonna be alive" was the popular sentiment.
I can't do this clip justice; it's unbelievable! I can't use enough exclamation points to convey how !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is!!!
After hearing this, my skeptic husband is a believer! If you have any so-called liberal friends or family members who are unwilling to believe anything that isn't on MSM, here you go!
There's NO WAY anyone could believe all this was due to incompetence after hearing this clip. NO WAY WHATSOEVER!!
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Wed Sep-14-05 08:58 PM
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3. From the TAL newsletter.... |
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Another Katrina show this week...and an interesting note on last week's...
THIS WEEKEND, 9/16-18: This Is Not My Beautiful House. Stories about Katrina refugees at the Houston Astrodome looking for a place -- any place -- to live. As a half-dozen families, including a pregnant woman having contractions and another with a four-week-old baby, are driven around the city, they confront potential neighbors who don't seem to want them, and neighbors they themselves don't want. Also, a New Orleans man sneaks back to his house to rescue some belongings, and finds it doesn't feel at all like home.
____ FEMA AND THE FLOOD. Many people have emailed asking about the FEMA story that was in our promos for last week's show. It wasn't in the show. "What happened?" people wrote. "Did you get censored?"
We weren't censored. But several key people we were hoping to interview for that story -- former FEMA employees, who we were hoping would talk about changes they witnessed at the agency since 9/11 -- ended up turning down our interview requests. It's possible we'll find other FEMA employees, past and present, to speak on the record, but as the show went to air, we felt that we didn't have enough new insights about FEMA that hadn't been reported elsewhere, so we decided to hold the story.
And by the way, there isn't really anyone in public radio who functions as a censor or even as an overall editorial director. We have complete editorial control over our show. It goes up onto the public radio satellite and public radio stations download it and put it on the air. Those stations are free to kill a show if they find the editorial content questionable. It's their radio station and their broadcast license at stake, after all. But no station has ever pulled one of our shows for its political content. -- Ira Glass
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Wed Sep-14-05 09:42 PM
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8. If they've never had a story pulled by a station, they're not trying hard |
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Wed Sep-14-05 09:25 PM
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4. Also at Audible for d/l to portable devices |
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This is one of the best TALs and they've had many great ones.
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Wed Sep-14-05 09:32 PM
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They have had many great ones, haven't they? One of my favorites is still the Roshamon one that aired shortly after 9/11...
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Wed Sep-14-05 09:38 PM
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6. YES, that one was great too! |
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Carol, thanks for posting the link because I remember thinking it'd probably be good for DUers to hear when I got my email regarding the newest available edition at Audible. NPR sometimes gets bashed here because they accept money from Wally World but, imo, save for some slow and iffy coverage regarding the recount in Ohio, they've remained without peer.
:bounce:Long live WNYC!!:bounce:
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Wed Sep-14-05 09:39 PM
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7. This episode deserves a Peabody |
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