Nathan Empsall, who spent the fall of 2006 helping New Orleans recover from Hurricane Katrina, writes with passionate intelligence about how the recovery has turned into a forgotten story, in both the mainstream media and the world of blogs, here.
Katrina caused a great number of people to be displaced and revealed a lack of leadership and planning for some cities. It is unfortunate that many people had to experience the loss of homes and lives. However, most people tire of tragedy quickly, and because of the daily things in all our lives, we often put events behind us as quickly as possible so we can "move on."
Thanks for the link, Raymond, and for highlighting this vital issue!
Pinehurst, I wrote the following in the entry about just that. "The excuse is that readers have “Katrina fatigue” and don’t want to hear about it anymore, but three problems with this excuse jump out at me: One, reader fatigue is nothing at all like the fatigue residents feel. You will not find an energetic Gulf Coast resident, everyone is so exhausted. Two, since it’s been almost two years since the constant coverage, readers and viewers should be over their initial fatigue by now. Three, a desire to avoid overkill hasn’t stopped the MSM from obsessive coverage of missing pretty white girls and celebrity scandals." Nor does an adversity to tragedy stop our leaders from bludgeoning us to death with 9/11.
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Katrina caused a great number of people to be displaced and revealed a lack of leadership and planning for some cities. It is unfortunate that many people had to experience the loss of homes and lives. However, most people tire of tragedy quickly, and because of the daily things in all our lives, we often put events behind us as quickly as possible so we can "move on."
Thanks for the link, Raymond, and for highlighting this vital issue!
Pinehurst, I wrote the following in the entry about just that. "The excuse is that readers have “Katrina fatigue” and don’t want to hear about it anymore, but three problems with this excuse jump out at me: One, reader fatigue is nothing at all like the fatigue residents feel. You will not find an energetic Gulf Coast resident, everyone is so exhausted. Two, since it’s been almost two years since the constant coverage, readers and viewers should be over their initial fatigue by now. Three, a desire to avoid overkill hasn’t stopped the MSM from obsessive coverage of missing pretty white girls and celebrity scandals." Nor does an adversity to tragedy stop our leaders from bludgeoning us to death with 9/11.
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