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    I've been watching the news non-stop since Katrina happened. And most of us have watched cable news programs. I remember alot of these reporters riding along with the Army, and the Marines into Iraq during the invasion and there was not a bit of emotion except when dealing with our troops.

    But these reporters now are looking tired, and saddened. And it makes me feel like shit. I would have thought that an invasion would take more toll on someone, but these reporters are sunburned, and looking very rough.

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    I heard one reporter say reporters have broken down and cried, they feel helpless.

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    I was just watching geraldo on the oreilly factor. He's gone. I've never seen someone snap on TV but he has.

    He was calling the govenor of LA worthless, the feds worthless, he told oreilly to get some buses down there right now, call the president and let him know. And oreilly just said ok they will be there tonight if they can.

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    I don't blame them. Jabbering at a camera lens must seem pretty dumb and useless when people are starving around you and bloated bodies are floating by.
    Seeing as TV anchors are ambitious types, I'm sure alternates will show up.

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    I'm not a huge fan of our Governor. She had a bunch of signs put up around Lafayette saying "Home of Governor Kathleen Blanco". Bullshit. She's not from Lafayette, she's from an outlying city that not many peope know the location of, so she claims Lafayette as her hometown. Couldn't the money spent on those signs be spent on something much more useful? Plus, do we really need a sign on each roadway into the city? Mike Foster had a sign on I-95 saying New Iberia was his hometown. One sign, not 20. She got in pretty much on a pity vote. Her son died a few years back after being crushed by a wrecking ball, I believe it was. Either a wrecking ball or some sort of heavy construction machinery. It was very sad; but after having a hard nosed, no bullshit kind of Goernor Like Mike Foster, she's kind of mushy. She doesn't have very impressive grammar skills; and when she threatens looters and vandals, I don't feel very reassured. She just seems a little too school marmy for me.

    I'm sure the anchors are tired and feel helpless as well. I'm sure they're ready to get home and appreciate their families. It would take a toll on anyone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DSUsb19
    I'm not a huge fan of our Governor. She had a bunch of signs put up around Lafayette saying "Home of Governor Kathleen Blanco". Bullshit. She's not from Lafayette, she's from an outlying city that not many peope know the location of, so she claims Lafayette as her hometown. Couldn't the money spent on those signs be spent on something much more useful? Plus, do we really need a sign on each roadway into the city? Mike Foster had a sign on I-95 saying New Iberia was his hometown. One sign, not 20. She got in pretty much on a pity vote. Her son died a few years back after being crushed by a wrecking ball, I believe it was. Either a wrecking ball or some sort of heavy construction machinery. It was very sad; but after having a hard nosed, no bullshit kind of Goernor Like Mike Foster, she's kind of mushy. She doesn't have very impressive grammar skills; and when she threatens looters and vandals, I don't feel very reassured. She just seems a little too school marmy for me.

    I'm sure the anchors are tired and feel helpless as well. I'm sure they're ready to get home and appreciate their families. It would take a toll on anyone.
    The political fall out for this is going to be very entertaining when there are no starving babies on the TV screen.

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    I'm having such a hard time watching the news. My mom even told me to stop because it won't do anything but upset me. But I still want to watch it. I swear my stomach as been so upset and I can't sleep even though I'm tired as hell. I recall learning about being in an anomic state when I was in college and that is sort of how I feel, like I don't know if I'm coming or going.

    "Emile Durkheim, a French sociologist, introduced the concept of anomie in his book The Division of Labour in Society, published in 1893. He used anomie to describe a condition of deregulation that was occurring in society. This meant that rules on how people ought to behave with each other were breaking down and thus people did not know what to expect from one another. Anomie, simply defined, is a state where norms (expectations on behaviours) are confused, unclear or not present. It is normlessness, Durkheim felt, that led to deviant behaviour. In 1897, Durkheim used the term again in his study on Suicide, referring to a morally deregulated condition. Durkheim was preoccupied with the effects of social change. He best illustrated his concept of anomie not in a discussion of crime but of suicide.

    In The Division of Labour in Society, Durkheim proposed two concepts. First, that societies evolved from a simple, non-specialised form, called mechanical, toward a highly complex, specialised form, called organic. In the former society people behave and think alike and more or less perform the same work tasks and have the same group-oriented goals. When societies become more complex, or organic, work also becomes more complex. In this society, people are no longer tied to one another and social bonds are impersonal.

    Anomie thus refers to a breakdown of social norms and it a condition where norms no longer control the activities of members in society. Individuals cannot find their place in society without clear rules to help guide them. Changing conditions as well as adjustment of life leads to dissatisfaction, conflict, and deviance. He observed that social periods of disruption (economic depression, for instance) brought about greater anomie and higher rates of crime, suicide, and deviance.

    Durkheim felt that sudden change caused a state of anomie. The system breaks down, either during a great prosperity or a great depression, anomie is the same result."

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    I feel very bad for the reporters as well. I also give them credit where it's due. There was footage today of a reporter (MSNBC, I believe), who was in the airport being used as a makeshift triage center. He noticed an elderly gentleman lying on the floor crying out for help. All he wanted was food and water. The reporter gave him little sips of bottled water, and bites of an MRE. (Little bites, and little sips, because the man had already been sick. The evidence was all over the front of his shirt and his chin.)

    I also feel for the reporter who slept in one of the shelters (I believe it was a triage center as well and might have been the same reporter, but I don't remember). He went to sleep last night, and when he woke, there were 3 bodies next to him covered with sheets: people that did not survive the night.

    That has got to wear on a person, and it'll stay with them forever.

    I feel for all in this situation. Being on the outside of it watching the footage is horrifying, but I'm sure that being on the inside is definitely too much to take.

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    This is a clusterfuck....and that is all there is to it. It shouldn't take us a week to save our own people who are only one state away from safety. Bull...........shit.
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    Rhia........I saw the same reporter in the Louis Armstrong Airport. Was an AMAZING story. I was very glad to see him reach out and help.

    Ya know......bash Oreilly all you want, but I have watched his show every day since the hurricane, and he has been asking the reporters what they need, where they need it, and how fast. It seems to be getting done. I realize that this isn't all because Bill is saying..."Get it done"......but it doesn't hurt to have someone screaming at the top of his lungs like Bill does.

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    Chris Mathhews had a reporter on Hardball yesterday surveying the Biloxi area with a wireless camera. As they were walking around surveying he damage, the reporter kept making a face and referring to "a smell". After he referred to "the smell" Chris finally asked hom outright, "Is that the smell of dead bodied rotting?" The reporter just said "Gasoline and rotting people." I hope these television companies are prociding goodfree counseling to these reporters, compensating them well, and giving a hell of a vacation when it's all cleared up.

    I saw shots of people who are now living on I-10, and they said one man had had all he could take and jumped off the bridge to his death. Theyjust covered him with a matress and went about their lives. I also read they're doing autopsies in the streets. Yipes. I'll bet money the Superdome has to be demolished. ith all those overflowing toilets, and bodily fluids and matter all ove, there's no way to clean that up.
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    The only other time that I've seen reporters this shaken was 9/11, and even then I don't remember this much despair in their voices.

    Martin Savidge on NBC said it best: "This is not Iraq, this is not Somalia. This is home."
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    I cant watch the news anymore let alone read the headlines...it starts to make me feel sick. Sorta felt like we had no real plan for something like this. Something this catastrophic. :S

    Feels like our whole nation is hurting right now with confusion, anger and sadness. Many many people (reporters too) are effected by this to some extent.
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