Disaster Hurricane Harvey Megathread - The Before, The During, and the Chaotic Aftermath.

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Shugo said:
Her house is flooded, she has no home probably, she has no clue how she's going to feed herself for the forseeable future, she's lost and scared inside a shelter and some bitch with a camera in a microphone comes up and asks, "how are you holding up? you doing ok? Look into the camera, and tell us exactly what you're experiencing right now."

Hurricane victims don't deserve to be harassed and interviewed when they arrive in emergency shelters and finally get the first hot meal they've had in days. We don't have to hear her recount the horrible story of watching her life long home being flooded YESTERDAY and losing everything she's known for her whole life, having to carry her crying child out of waist-high water with no idea of where she's going.

Leave them alone. We don't need to hear from a mother's mouth that her home is gone and she and her child are lost and scared. We know it. They just want more ratings by showing poor victims. Notice how almost everyone they interview are women: for the emotional ploy, they want ratings.
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She could have just said she didn't want to be interviewed instead of chimping out.
 
Oglooger said:
She could have just said she didn't want to be interviewed instead of chimping out.
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You don't always think straight when you get into a shelter, and some lady sticks a microphone in your face and asks you a question.

Maybe she felt fine until she started describing the shit she had just endured the same day, and realized describing what she just went through is making her re-live it in her mind. People who just watched their homes swallowed up by 4-6 feet of water don't always think fast enough to decline an interview politely.

Just leave Hurricane victims alone. Interview the people helping, not the families trying to feed themselves and their children when they step into an emergency shelter. It's sensationalist to stick cameras and microphones in the faces of people even while they're being taken out of their ruined homes in boats. We don't have to hear their first hand experience on the same day they lost their homes.

News outlets are ratings-hungry scum who will do anything as long as they get a lot of viewers. Remember how Sandy Hook coverage was on CNN for about 3 months straight?
 
I hear rumors that people are dressing up as coast guard or whatever to evacuate people so they can loot their homes.
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The biggest irony is that the people most effected aren't Nazis at all, but Latino communities in East Houston like second ward and black communities in Galveston and poor white people in Bolivar and Rockport. In other words Charlie Hebdo's Classism is showing.
 
Man, Charlie Hebdo isn't really all that good at satire to be honest. After the van attack in Spain their cover was just some cartoon corpses, a van, and the caption "Religion of Peace...ETERNAL." I'd expect a "Religion of 'peace', am I right!?" quip from some guy on Reddit. That's pretty trite for a publication that's been running for so long.
 
MrLobe said:
Man, Charlie Hebdo isn't really all that good at satire to be honest. After the van attack in Spain their cover was just some cartoon corpses, a van, and the caption "Religion of Peace...ETERNAL." I'd expect a "Religion of 'peace', am I right!?" quip from some guy on Reddit. That's pretty trite for a publication that's been running for so long.
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Their most talented staff was murdered by those kebabs, so what's left isn't really too good at picking up the slack.
 
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