there has been a TON of pretty progressive/searching questions/attitudes put forth by the journalists involved in this--many recognize the poor/black thing. even wolf blitzer's "so black" thing was clearly just him speaking off-the-cuff, but still shows they realise this stuff. remember how lizard (?) was saying how mad some of the journalists were?
i just saw an aaron brown piece where he aggressively mad dr. gupta spell out the situation over and over so everyone could understand that they evacuated white private-hospital staff before the dying public-hospital patients next door. and then he interviewed an african-american congressperson and really was pushing her to say that this was all about race and get worked up about it (she kept giving measured responses, very wise, and said something which i think i posted here yesterday: that it's primarily a CLASS, not race thing, but that in this country race is an inextricable part of class).
just because of the depth and involvement, not for political reasons, i'm positive whoever gets the pulitizer will get it b/c of katrina coverage.
i just saw an aaron brown piece where he aggressively mad dr. gupta spell out the situation over and over so everyone could understand that they evacuated white private-hospital staff before the dying public-hospital patients next door. and then he interviewed an african-american congressperson and really was pushing her to say that this was all about race and get worked up about it (she kept giving measured responses, very wise, and said something which i think i posted here yesterday: that it's primarily a CLASS, not race thing, but that in this country race is an inextricable part of class).
just because of the depth and involvement, not for political reasons, i'm positive whoever gets the pulitizer will get it b/c of katrina coverage.
