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Sep. 2nd, 2005 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taerowynI need to stop reading this stuff at work...almost breaking into tears is a bit of a giveaway...
Here's the story that got me first: When I got into that boat - I'm kind of choking up now - I did everything I could to fight back tears at that point. I almost burst out. Because this little girl was just like grasping so lovingly onto this guy. She was so clearly afraid and so confused. I can only imagine what was going on in her mind. So see a little girl like that clasp onto a total stranger was really emotional for both of us. He told me he was fighting back tears, too. I mean, no words were exchanged, but I think we both knew were both trying not to explode crying right there on the boat.
I find the difference of opinion at the Washington Post fairly interesting. According to the editorial board, the federal government's immediate response to the destruction of one of the nation's most historic cities does seem commensurate with the scale of the disaster.
When you're done vomiting over that statement, you can read what one WP writer thinks: Yet in the president's thin remarks yesterday, there was no call for sacrifice, no mention of conservation, even as gas prices skyrocket and we look ahead at a period of obvious shortage. Just as he failed to call on the goodness and strength of the American people in the aftermath of 9/11, urging contributions to the Red Cross rather than far stronger forms of sacrifice, Bush has once again decided to treat Americans like schoolchildren, making this crisis sound like someone else's problem, one that we can help by writing a check instead of one that we all need to address through common sacrifice and effort.
Again I must point out the wonder that is Romenesko for all the great links they're providing. And I have to agree with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
liz_marcs that some of the best and most interesting coverage is suprisingly coming out of Editor&
Publisher.
Here's the story that got me first: When I got into that boat - I'm kind of choking up now - I did everything I could to fight back tears at that point. I almost burst out. Because this little girl was just like grasping so lovingly onto this guy. She was so clearly afraid and so confused. I can only imagine what was going on in her mind. So see a little girl like that clasp onto a total stranger was really emotional for both of us. He told me he was fighting back tears, too. I mean, no words were exchanged, but I think we both knew were both trying not to explode crying right there on the boat.
I find the difference of opinion at the Washington Post fairly interesting. According to the editorial board, the federal government's immediate response to the destruction of one of the nation's most historic cities does seem commensurate with the scale of the disaster.
When you're done vomiting over that statement, you can read what one WP writer thinks: Yet in the president's thin remarks yesterday, there was no call for sacrifice, no mention of conservation, even as gas prices skyrocket and we look ahead at a period of obvious shortage. Just as he failed to call on the goodness and strength of the American people in the aftermath of 9/11, urging contributions to the Red Cross rather than far stronger forms of sacrifice, Bush has once again decided to treat Americans like schoolchildren, making this crisis sound like someone else's problem, one that we can help by writing a check instead of one that we all need to address through common sacrifice and effort.
Again I must point out the wonder that is Romenesko for all the great links they're providing. And I have to agree with
liz_marcs that some of the best and most interesting coverage is suprisingly coming out of Editor&Publisher.
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Date: 2005-09-02 08:43 am (UTC)Yeah, I feel compelled to grasp at every piece of news I can find, but I can't read about or watch the "individual tragic stories" stuff.