Journalism Issues

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Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 18:58:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: Thos Myers <totem@laplaza.org>
Subject: [ACME Member List] Katrina news:

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

-Barbara Bush after touring the refugee camp at the Houston
Astrodome. [1]

[1] You can hear Barbara Bush on American Public Media's "Marketplace" at:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2005/09/05/PM200509051.html

I have read some comments by people saying that the people without homes, without clothing, food, water and who are being moved to football stadiums and into private homes are not "refugees's" which is so much a third world description. America doesn't have refugee's, save for the thousands of Americans who are seeking refuge fromm the storm.

Oprah and Jesse (Jackson): you are wrong. These people are refugees.

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