Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/08

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Subject: [Leica] I really disagree with this policy
From: paul at paulhardycarter.com (Paul)
Date: Thu Sep 8 06:42:32 2005
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On 8 Sep 2005, at 13:28, Don Dory wrote:

> Besides, the real story is out in New Orleans itself, in and around
> Biloxi, Gulfport, and all the little communities on the coast.  Access
> there to accredited media is not bad and the real story is the people
> that are going in saving, restoring, choosing what stays and what
> goes.  We don't really need to see ten thousand cots lined up with sad
> looking people sitting on them.  We do need to see people getting on
> with their lives and coping with their loss.

The shelters are not the real story? I'll say they are! Any event of 
this enormity is multi-faceted. The story is everywhere, in the faces 
of those pulling bodies out of houses, of survivors who got out (like 
Charmaine Neville, what a story that is), of people trying to rebuilt, 
of gangsters, you name it, but certainly in the faces of those sitting 
on a camp bed wearing everything they have in the world and not knowing 
what happens tomorrow.

>
> Now, back to the SuperDome.  I don't believe in that chaos that
> anybody kept anybody from going inside during the first 48 hours.  So,
> where was the press when the people needed help the most?

And that is a very good point!

P.

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