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Is this ridiculous, or what?

 
 
Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 10:28 am
Is this ridiculous, or what?

I've had CNN and MSNBC on all day as I sit at my computer or work around my house.

Over and over I hear the talking head make announcements for the people in the devastated hurricane areas:

Don't go there; do go here. Call this number for information. Help is coming. Etc., etc. Can you visualize all those people huddling around their working TV sets, nodding their heads in thanks for helpful information?

All this valuable survival information to thousands of people who are cut off from all communication: no telephones, no TVs, no radios, nothing---nada.

All that good intentioned advice wafting away up into the ether.

But, hey! It does fill up 24-hour news airtime so all is not lost.

BBB Rolling Eyes
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Acquiunk
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 10:40 am
This makes perfect sense.

Communication take two basic forms. Broadcast and interpersonal communication.

Normally broadcast is sufficient for the kind of information you describe but this is not a normal situation.

In situation like New Orleans where many people are cut off from broadcast information and can not get it by that means the assumption is that by spreading vital information as wide as possible by broadcast it will be picked up by the interpersonal networks and passed on.

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BumbleBeeBoogie
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 10:49 am
Acquiunk
Acquiunk wrote:
This makes perfect sense.

Communication take two basic forms. Broadcast and interpersonal communication.

Normally broadcast is sufficient for the kind of information you describe but this is not a normal situation.

In situation like New Orleans where many people are cut off from broadcast information and can not get it by that means the assumption is that by spreading vital information as wide as possible by broadcast it will be picked up by the interpersonal networks and passed on.

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Normally I would agree with you. But if the people can't be reached to rescue them and they can't even call for help except from the roof tops, if they can't be reached to provide food and water, how is such information to reach them?

I'm not critisizing the Media's attempt to be helpful. It's just the mindless habit of doing the same old thing without giving though about the information can reach the affected people.

The irony of it just baffled me.

BBB
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barefootTia
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 10:50 am
I am also assuming that only a few will hear and see the broadcasts, and then it will eventually be spread by word of mouth or by pamphlets being issued out.
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 10:51 am
Acquiunk makes good sense.

According to the papers this morning one reason the Non-Evacuees were angry was an unsubstantiated rumor that 80% of the city had been deliverately flooded to spare the French Quarter.

Another unsubstantited rumor was that people were to be herded into the Convention Center and the stadium and be gassed or shot.

I'm sure some of the Non-Evacuees have portable radios and I'm absolutely certain that the Relief Workers have come with emergency generators which will be used to power television sets, both for information and for entertainment.
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Reyn
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 05:07 pm
Noddy24 wrote:
Another unsubstantited rumor was that people were to be herded into the Convention Center and the stadium and be gassed or shot.

Shocked What? Who would start such a rumour....and why would it be believed? I realize things are chaotic right now, but that seems rather "out in left field".

This herding business indicates that it would be done by someone in authority. Surely we're not talking about genocide?
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Sat 3 Sep, 2005 05:16 pm
Reyn--

My source is the NYT's.

The underclass mentality is prone to believe that every man's hand is against them.

Really, leaping from "we're flooded to save the Quarters" to "they will shoot us to save on welfare" isn't such a big jump if logic is suspended.

Several years ago there was a rumor in NYC that cost the A-Treat soda company a lot of money. Would you believe that a commercially bottled soda would make you sterile? Of course not.

How about patients with syphillis remaining untreated--and at large--in the general population so the progress of the disease could be studied?
Oops. That one was true.
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