Blogging Katrina
30.08.2005By my estimation the big lefty blogs (Wonkette, Alas, A Blog, Majikthise) remain silent about Katrina. Only Bitch, Ph. D. makes mention of Katrina.
[UPDATE 4:16 PM 08/30/05: I stand corrected! Elise writes, "Actually, Ezra Klein, Digby, Atrios, Echidne of the Snakes and Kevin Drum all posted information on Katrina pretty quickly - and those are all pretty major liberal blogs!"]
The big righty blogs (Michelle Malkin, Confederate Yankee) have been blogging for some time about relief efforts, the break in the levee and a bunch of other stuff.
Instapundit makes a small mention of a day dedicated to raising money for the relief efforts. (Thursday) Boing Boing (neither of which I would describe as particularly left, more curiosity shop) has before and after the levee break shots of NO.
Only one blog, and a conservative one at that, makes mention of the fate of the prisoners housed at Orleans Parish Prison. Last I heard Orleans Parish was under water. I did a google search on "Katrina" and "Orleans Parish Prison." Nothing.
Michelle Malkin made a swipe at looters. Maybe she can survive without water or food while waste infested water rose up around her. But me, left without water or electricity, I’d steal Diet Pepsi and Ho-Hos, too.
As for my dear, dear, liberal blogs, who knows. Are we waiting for something to say? Someone to respond to?
And what about those 6000+prisoners?
[UPDATE: The looting photos are coming across the wire now. The fact that three photos show seemingly African-American people -one with a bucket of beer - speaks volumes to me. Visual politics and poverty intersect ending in racism. Never mind that the 20% of the people left behind are the poorest of the poor and/or living with chronic illness and/or impairments that making driving in a car for 22 hours to escape Katrina impossible.
The story of the poor people of Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana taking the physical hits to their bodiesremains, and will continue to remain, under the rug. Ignored. Just like the prisoners in Orleans Parish Prison.
But in the end does anybody really give a shit if a grocery store loses beer and soda and water and food to people stranded and starving and dying?]