Bush Is in No Hurry on Katrina Recovery
Almost two months after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast and a month after promising in a nationally televised speech to help rebuild the region "quickly," President Bush has settled on a cautious, piecemeal approach that even many members of his own party fear will stall reconstruction […]
If the Los Angeles Times were based out of Mexico City, would the report "Immigrants Rush to New Orleans as Contractors Fight for Workers" be any different? Of course! It might be in Spanish. Other than that:
…Word has gotten out and each morning day laborers - who come from Central America and Mexico by way […]
The LAT says that some say the appointment of Ellen Sauerbrey to the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration is similar to Mike Brown's appointment to head FEMA. That Bureau handles international matters involving mass migrations, war relief, and the like.
This is also the second such appointment to be refered to as Mike […]
Who better to discuss media accuracy than the Los Angeles Times?
"Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy" discusses the recent spate of articles downplaying violence in NO after the hurricane, discusses yesterday's NOLA piece, and has some examples of reporting it now says has been discredited.
First, here's the Oprah bits:
Mayor C. Ray Nagin told […]
Gregory Rodriguez - a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times - offers "La Nueva Orleans". He discusses how illegal aliens from Mexico will help rebuild New Orleans and then will settle there, displacing the original population of blacks and whites. Obviously, if we were talking about whites displacing blacks and Hispanics that would be […]
Hilburn is the L.A. Times' pop music critic, and he discusses Kanye West's outburst in "The Show Didn't Benefit by Censors":
…NBC may have been nervous about West's comments, including the notion that America and its president are unresponsive to the needs of the poor. But you can be sure those remarks would have been cheered […]
