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Sorry. This might make me seem like an uncaring asshole, but I've got to be honest. CNN, NPR, they've got stuff about Katrina on every day. It happened six months ago. The city is rebuilding. Why do I need constant updates on it? Can't they find some other news to cover? Is there nothing else going on in the world?

Some of us still live with it every day, you know. It's not like it's ancient, faded history.

Now really, if they reported something else they wouldn't be the America-obsessed, manipulative news stations that they are.

Sorry. This might make me seem like an uncaring asshole, but I've got to be honest. CNN, NPR, they've got stuff about Katrina on every day. It happened six months ago. The city is rebuilding. Why do I need constant updates on it? Can't they find some other news to cover? Is there nothing else going on in the world?

I am sick about it too, you should have made a good public poll on it.

Yep. Iraq, Gay Marriage and Muslim cartoons.

Take your pick. :)

Yep. Iraq, Gay Marriage and Muslim cartoons.

Take your pick. :)

You forgot Abortion.

You forgot Abortion.
He also forgot about Creationism vs. real science.

You both forgot Poland.

You forgot Abortion.

And girls marrying dogs!

Sorry. This might make me seem like an uncaring asshole, but I've got to be honest. CNN, NPR, they've got stuff about Katrina on every day. It happened six months ago. The city is rebuilding. Why do I need constant updates on it? Can't they find some other news to cover? Is there nothing else going on in the world?

I agree.

Of course, I'm also sick about 9/11, for the same reasons.

Sorry. This might make me seem like an uncaring asshole, but I've got to be honest. CNN, NPR, they've got stuff about Katrina on every day. It happened six months ago. The city is rebuilding. Why do I need constant updates on it? Can't they find some other news to cover? Is there nothing else going on in the world?

If it makes you an uncaring asshole, then I'm one, too.

It's not so much that 'it happened a long time ago' that bothers me, though... it's the fact that it wasn't even CLOSE to being the worst disaster in the world over the last few years, or even over the last 12 months. And yet, (I guess because this one happened in the US, instead of some poor nation), this is the one that gets all the attention.

I believe SOME aspects f the thing still deserve to be frontpage news... the outrageous level of incompetence that preceded and followed the issue, and that (basically) still remains totally unaddressed, for example. But, I believe that should be frontpage news because of the punitive actio I would like to see from the lowest offices to the highest.

EDIT: I didn't ACTUALLY have a bacon cheeseburger at lunch, but I haven't had my lunch yet, so I still might...

He also forgot about Creationism vs. real science.

That's not news. That's not even an argument. That's the church getting sand in its collective vagina.

Sorry. This might make me seem like an uncaring asshole, but I've got to be honest. CNN, NPR, they've got stuff about Katrina on every day. It happened six months ago. The city is rebuilding. Why do I need constant updates on it? Can't they find some other news to cover? Is there nothing else going on in the world?

Sorry Drunk commies deleted, I did not see the poll at first,
I guess I am the drunk capitalist, LOL

Do you know what would do this world a lot of good?

If a near-Earth collision of a couple asteroids caused a cloud of dust and fragments to take upa counter-orbital track around the Earth and literally shred every satellite in orbit. Then, for the next twenty years, until the debris field clears, we were forced to rely on local news, local television and local communications to get all our information. Who knows? Maybe if it goes on long enough, people will actually take a look around them and notice what's going on.

One can hope. :p

Sorry. This might make me seem like an uncaring asshole, but I've got to be honest. CNN, NPR, they've got stuff about Katrina on every day. It happened six months ago. The city is rebuilding. Why do I need constant updates on it? Can't they find some other news to cover? Is there nothing else going on in the world?

You're just upset you weren't at Mardi Gras aren't you? :p

There's another thread on NSG right now about how Americans are becoming more ignorant by the day.

This thread is just another example of that point. Willfull ignorance of things that truly matter, and an hearty unwillingness to look back at things that, if allowed to repeat, could actually effect oneself in the future.

Eh I'm tired of it as well. Pretty soon we'll be hearing "Well it's been a year since Katrina, and we still see garbage on the streets."

Do you know what would do this world a lot of good?

If a near-Earth collision of a couple asteroids caused a cloud of dust and fragments to take upa counter-orbital track around the Earth and literally shred every satellite in orbit. Then, for the next twenty years, until the debris field clears, we were forced to rely on local news, local television and local communications to get all our information. Who knows? Maybe if it goes on long enough, people will actually take a look around them and notice what's going on.

One can hope. :p

Get me a space suit and a shotgun.

Sorry. This might make me seem like an uncaring asshole, but I've got to be honest. CNN, NPR, they've got stuff about Katrina on every day. It happened six months ago. The city is rebuilding. Why do I need constant updates on it? Can't they find some other news to cover? Is there nothing else going on in the world?Man, I'm sorry...I was unaware that you suffer from a medical condition that renders you unable to turn off your television or avert your eyes from newspaper articles! That must be horrible for you, to be handicapped so severely that you are unable to choose what channels to watch, what papers to read, or what radio programs to listen to.

Somebody should start a telethon for this poor fellow.

Do you know what would do this world a lot of good?

If a near-Earth collision of a couple asteroids caused a cloud of dust and fragments to take upa counter-orbital track around the Earth and literally shred every satellite in orbit. Then, for the next twenty years, until the debris field clears, we were forced to rely on local news, local television and local communications to get all our information. Who knows? Maybe if it goes on long enough, people will actually take a look around them and notice what's going on.

One can hope. :p

We don't have to wait and hope. If someone can get his hands on a nice nuclear warhead and a rocket that will take it into LEO before detonating, the EMP and ionizing radiation from that blast alone should take out every satelite within a short period of time.

Now I want a bacon cheeseburger. I hate you.

Man, I'm sorry...I was unaware that you suffer from a medical condition that renders you unable to turn off your television or avert your eyes from newspaper articles! That must be horrible for you, to be handicapped so severely that you are unable to choose what channels to watch, what papers to read, or what radio programs to listen to.

Somebody should start a telethon for this poor fellow.
I like news in the morning. I don't like ad-nauseum stories about Katrina. I've heard countless interviews with survivors, interviews with local and federal politicians, human interest stories about people dead and missing, and I just want my news back. I don't want to have to change the TV station and watch "Law and Order" or listen to Shock Jocks or the latest crappy pop music on my radio. I want news, and Katrina has flooded all the news out.

Man, I'm sorry...I was unaware that you suffer from a medical condition that renders you unable to turn off your television or avert your eyes from newspaper articles! That must be horrible for you, to be handicapped so severely that you are unable to choose what channels to watch, what papers to read, or what radio programs to listen to.

Somebody should start a telethon for this poor fellow.

No, no, the point is that our Glorious, Representative and Informative American news network is expending excessive amounts of airtime/frontpage on events that are no longer relevant. Yes. We're all aware that Katrina happened, but that fact in and of itself should no longer be shoving other, vastly more important news out of the way.

Sorry. This might make me seem like an uncaring asshole, but I've got to be honest. CNN, NPR, they've got stuff about Katrina on every day. It happened six months ago. The city is rebuilding. Why do I need constant updates on it? Can't they find some other news to cover? Is there nothing else going on in the world?
Its about time someone said it, bless you. I got tried of hearing about it about 3 days after it happened and tried avoiding news on it ever since. It went away for a while and then all of sudden, bam, its back like an unexcepted, unwanted herpes outbreak(and no I dont have them). Seriously, we get it, the place flooded, Bush screwed up Ive been told(I dont know what more people wanted him to do, its not he flooded the damn place), time to move on.

It is (was, will be...whatever, I'm not Catholic) Mardi Gras-which previously was the only time anyone ever thought of New Orleans unless they where taking a test in Jazz History they where taking for an easy A.

So you're a programer for a news program or channel, Mardi Gras is coming up, New Orleans is still fucked but partying anyway, some of the results of inquiries are coming out-what do you decide to run? It makes sense that now there is a bit of focus on Katrina again on American news. As a programer you'd be silly to not go to it. And like Bottle said, you have a remote-no one was ever supposed to keep watching the 24 hour new cycle, it's designed to repeat so you can tune in, get whats up and move on. You watch too much it gets crazy repetitive....

Some of us still live with it every day, you know. It's not like it's ancient, faded history.
You ain't kidding, especially when you factor in that all the promises the administration made about rebuilding the Gulf Coast have turned out to be--surprise!--a lot of hot air. Maybe, just maybe, this will cost those fuckers in Washington who have been playing on guns, God and gays for the last forty years.

You're sick of hearing about Katrina, so you decided to make a thread about Katrina?

You're sick of hearing about Katrina, so you decided to make a thread about Katrina?

:D

You're sick of hearing about Katrina, so you decided to make a thread about Katrina?

LMAO. excellent point.

Im not sure where the OP lives, but maybe he hears a lot about Katrina because he lives in the Gulf states.

I took a direct hit from Hurricane Charley a year before Katrina (Cat4, 150mph winds), and we still get a lot of news stories about the aftermath. The sponges that accepted free housing for nine months, and then won't leave, even after a year and a half; the problems with unlicensed contractors, the troubles with the affordable housing market. And Im sure every hurricane season we will be inundated (pardon the pun) with more Charley footage and commentary. I doubt the rest of the country gets these stories on their news. So that makes me wonder if the OP lives in the Gulf States, where such news is considered salient.

If so, then i recommend he start watching BBC World News, which will have different repetitive stories for him/her to get sick of.

You're sick of hearing about Katrina, so you decided to make a thread about Katrina?
Sometimes I feel the need to vent my frustration through vigorous complaining and whining.

LMAO. excellent point.

Im not sure where the OP lives, but maybe he hears a lot about Katrina because he lives in the Gulf states.

I took a direct hit from Hurricane Charley a year before Katrina (Cat4, 150mph winds), and we still get a lot of news stories about the aftermath. The sponges that accepted free housing for nine months, and then won't leave, even after a year and a half; the problems with unlicensed contractors, the troubles with the affordable housing market. And Im sure every hurricane season we will be inundated (pardon the pun) with more Charley footage and commentary. I doubt the rest of the country gets these stories on their news. So that makes me wonder if the OP lives in the Gulf States, where such news is considered salient.

If so, then i recommend he start watching BBC World News, which will have different repetitive stories for him/her to get sick of.
I live in New Jersey. My cable system doesn't carry BBC. Luckily my local NPR station carries BBC newshour during my morning commute.

Sometimes I feel the need to vent my frustration through vigorous complaining and whining.

It just seems like fanning the flames to me. If you're sick of hearing about it, why bring it up again? Personally, I'd be trying to get as far away from it as possible.

It just seems like fanning the flames to me. If you're sick of hearing about it, why bring it up again? Personally, I'd be trying to get as far away from it as possible.

I like to keep up with the news while I am at work. I don't watch TV, and I don't buy newspapers, so I listen to the radio. I want to know what is happening in the world... and I'm actually interested in knowing what is going on in the WHOLE world, not just the 'world' within US borders.

It's a big world. There's a lot of stuff happening out there, I'm sure. So, it frustrates me that, yet again, we are talking to some guy telling us about how the water came 7 feet up his stairs...

Okay. 7 feet. On the satirs. Got it.... now, how about more than a passing mention of the collapsed mine in Mexico?

I agree.

Of course, I'm also sick about 9/11, for the same reasons.

so I'm taking it neither of you have been directly effected by these two national tragedies.. and i echo the post above - there are people who are still living in hurricane effected areas some six months later who's home and land looks like Katrina went through a day before.. still no sign of Fema and still no relief in site..

The fact that the media is keeping this in our faces is a good thing.. national disasters and their long term effects just don't go away when we're sick of hearing about them. The Bush Administration wants it to go away as well, and they want us to forget how they botched the days before and after Katrina and they want us to think it's all being fixed because of them - thanks to news reporters and people speaking out, they're not winning the PR exercise on this one. They want this to all go away especially in an election year.

Count your blessings that this is all that you and the original poster have to be sick of.. many many people would change places with you in a heartbeat.

Even better do something to fix the problem.. volunteer or make a donation - much more pro-active.

Eh I'm tired of it as well. Pretty soon we'll be hearing "Well it's been a year since Katrina, and we still see garbage on the streets."

Isn' that enough to make you angry???? Or would it be easier to just make it go away????

Just put me up for any regional US news.

so I'm taking it neither of you have been directly effected by these two national tragedies.. and i echo the post above - there are people who are still living in hurricane effected areas some six months later who's home and land looks like Katrina went through a day before.. still no sign of Fema and still no relief in site..

The fact that the media is keeping this in our faces is a good thing.. national disasters and their long term effects just don't go away when we're sick of hearing about them. The Bush Administration wants it to go away as well, and they want us to forget how they botched the days before and after Katrina and they want us to think it's all being fixed because of them - thanks to news reporters and people speaking out, they're not winning the PR exercise on this one. They want this to all go away especially in an election year.

Count your blessings that this is all that you and the original poster have to be sick of.. many many people would change places with you in a heartbeat.

Even better do something to fix the problem.. volunteer or make a donation - much more pro-active.

Personally, I wasn't in THIS tragedy, but I have been involved. I'm one of those people who has covered the work-shifts of a friend who is doing reconstruction work in affected areas.

However, the point still stands...why is the media wasting time interviewing the guy who painted his porch blue, this week... when there are 'real' news stories out there?

so I'm taking it neither of you have been directly effected by these two national tragedies.. and i echo the post above - there are people who are still living in hurricane effected areas some six months later who's home and land looks like Katrina went through a day before.. still no sign of Fema and still no relief in site..

Who says I haven't been affected? That's a bit presumptious on your part, don't you think?

Just because I'm sick of something being pounded on by the news media for year after goddam year doesn't mean I'm a heartlessly indifferent bastard. Quite the opposite. Take an example: girl gets raped. News about the rape happens every day. Every week. Every month, year after year.

Let's say she says she's very tired of the media harping on it.

Does that mean she hasn't been affected by the tragedy of the event?


Count your blessings that this is all that you and the original poster have to be sick of.. many many people would change places with you in a heartbeat.

Again, who says this is ALL I have to be sick of? I can find plenty of things to be sick and tired of. Like for example, self-righteous people trying to tell me to shut up because I *could* have it worse.


Even better do something to fix the problem.. volunteer or make a donation - much more pro-active.

Fix the problem? Er, of what?

Is there a "Get the news media to stop reporting bullshit" charity I can donate to?

Is there a "Get the news media to stop reporting bullshit" charity I can donate to?


Yes, it's called PBS.

I tired of hearing how Katrina is responsible for increasing the price of the gasoline and fuel oil I buy. The price went up immediately-even on the petroleum products that were already here in tanks. I'd love to see the price react that quickly and go down when conditions improve.
Its all bullshit, people have accepted it and we're all paying over $2.00 a gallon.

There's another thread on NSG right now about how Americans are becoming more ignorant by the day.

This thread is just another example of that point. Willfull ignorance of things that truly matter, and an hearty unwillingness to look back at things that, if allowed to repeat, could actually effect oneself in the future.

'Tis the unfortunate side-effect of being a super power for so long. We're so secure that we don't have any reason to care about the rest of the world.
-An Ignorant American

Sorry. This might make me seem like an uncaring asshole, but I've got to be honest. CNN, NPR, they've got stuff about Katrina on every day. It happened six months ago. The city is rebuilding. Why do I need constant updates on it? Can't they find some other news to cover? Is there nothing else going on in the world?
Seconded. :)

I like to keep up with the news while I am at work. I don't watch TV, and I don't buy newspapers, so I listen to the radio. I want to know what is happening in the world... and I'm actually interested in knowing what is going on in the WHOLE world, not just the 'world' within US borders.

It's a big world. There's a lot of stuff happening out there, I'm sure. So, it frustrates me that, yet again, we are talking to some guy telling us about how the water came 7 feet up his stairs...

Okay. 7 feet. On the satirs. Got it.... now, how about more than a passing mention of the collapsed mine in Mexico?

Exactly. Yes, the aftermath of Katrina is still affecting many people. Yes, it was horrible. Yes, government screwed up across the board. I get it. However, other things have happened in the world since then that also deserve the attention of the media. I'm tired of the human interest stories in New Orleans replacing actual news, like the nuclear cooperation agreement between the US and India, or the arrest and beating of a presidential candidate in Belarus.

so I'm taking it neither of you have been directly effected by these two national tragedies.. and i echo the post above - there are people who are still living in hurricane effected areas some six months later who's home and land looks like Katrina went through a day before.. still no sign of Fema and still no relief in site..

The fact that the media is keeping this in our faces is a good thing.. national disasters and their long term effects just don't go away when we're sick of hearing about them. The Bush Administration wants it to go away as well, and they want us to forget how they botched the days before and after Katrina and they want us to think it's all being fixed because of them - thanks to news reporters and people speaking out, they're not winning the PR exercise on this one. They want this to all go away especially in an election year.

Count your blessings that this is all that you and the original poster have to be sick of.. many many people would change places with you in a heartbeat.

Even better do something to fix the problem.. volunteer or make a donation - much more pro-active.

Perhaps as a society we have drifted too far from our roots. Why is it that people expect that a government agancy will be there to pick them up when they've fallen. It's time people got back to the self reliance that we see only 150 years ago on the American frontier. If a frontier community got hit by say...a fire, they didn't send for help from the federal government. I admit that the situation is far larger, but essentially it's the same idea. People need to begin relying on themselves more, and on the Welfare State less.

Perhaps as a society we have drifted too far from our roots. Why is it that people expect that a government agancy will be there to pick them up when they've fallen. It's time people got back to the self reliance that we see only 150 years ago on the American frontier. If a frontier community got hit by say...a fire, they didn't send for help from the federal government. I admit that the situation is far larger, but essentially it's the same idea. People need to begin relying on themselves more, and on the Welfare State less.
My sentiments exactly.

Rebuilding? There are still houses in the middle of the streets, there is still rubble and debris everywhere, sure it's better than it was right after it happened, but as you so brilliantly pointed out, it happened six months ago.

Man, that was a good cheeseburger...


so I'm taking it neither of you have been directly effected by these two national tragedies.. and i echo the post above - there are people who are still living in hurricane effected areas some six months later who's home and land looks like Katrina went through a day before.. still no sign of Fema and still no relief in site..

The fact that the media is keeping this in our faces is a good thing.. national disasters and their long term effects just don't go away when we're sick of hearing about them. The Bush Administration wants it to go away as well, and they want us to forget how they botched the days before and after Katrina and they want us to think it's all being fixed because of them - thanks to news reporters and people speaking out, they're not winning the PR exercise on this one. They want this to all go away especially in an election year.

Count your blessings that this is all that you and the original poster have to be sick of.. many many people would change places with you in a heartbeat.

Even better do something to fix the problem.. volunteer or make a donation - much more pro-active.

I assume the poeple effected by it have a good grasp on the detials, and those that weren't know about it, they know about the Red Cross too, we don't lose our memory on a weekly basis...

I was sick of hearing about Katrina a week after it happened. I live in Florida. There are a lot of hurricanes every year, and a few always strike here. That's why we don't live below sea level at the beach. And houses have stilts. And aren't made of cardboard. We are prepared. If you live below sea level at the beach on the gulf coast where there is a hurricane season EVERY DAMN YEAR, then you deserve to get killed or have your house washed away. It's called being recklessly stupid, and people like that should not be able to breed. It shollows the gene pool. I wouldn't live on an active volcano, and you'd be stupid to.

What pisses me off most about it is that they're not talking about how Nawlins is going to rebuild (or whether it will, for that matter)...

it's all about whom to blame. And since most of the media is liberal-biased (Americna Democrat), that means they're blaming it on President Bush (and ignoring the culpability of the Louisiana governor and Nagin).

There's another thread on NSG right now about how Americans are becoming more ignorant by the day.

This thread is just another example of that point. Willfull ignorance of things that truly matter, and an hearty unwillingness to look back at things that, if allowed to repeat, could actually effect oneself in the future.

he never said it doesnt matter its just redundant to hear it every damn day...