August 30th, 2005

First photo’s cap­tion:
A young man walks through chest deep flood water after loot­ing a gro­cery store in New Orleans on Tues­day, Aug. 30, 2005.

Second photo’s cap­tion:
A looter car­ries a bucket of beer out of a gro­cery store in New Orleans on Tuesday,

Third photo’s cap­tion:
Two res­i­dents wade through chest-​deep water after find­ing bread and soda from a local gro­cery store…

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13 Responses to “Media Bias”

1. Erik says:
   August 31st, 2005 at 10:21 am

   As if the huge laun­dry basket of beer wasn’t enough, check out the looter’s back pocket.
2. BicMan says:
   August 31st, 2005 at 11:34 am

   Every­body knows that white people don’t commit crimes.
3. rick says:
   August 31st, 2005 at 11:35 am

   Looks like the Saints are going to have to post­pone their first game under their new retractable roof.
4. Daniel Andrews says:
   August 31st, 2005 at 1:02 pm

   I heard that the Saints were either going to play in Hous­ton, Baton Rouge, or Orlando. All have offered their sta­di­ums for their use.
5. D'Juan says:
   August 31st, 2005 at 5:05 pm

   Dis­gust­ing. Anyone would do what they had to do to eat and sur­vive in sit­u­a­tions like that, but a simple twist on the words makes it com­pletely racist.

   And here I thought we were in the “Information” age. It’s common infor­ma­tion that we can’t con­trol our skin color…
6. Daniel Andrews says:
   August 31st, 2005 at 7:53 pm

   There is def­i­nitely a line between taking bread, water, dia­pers, etc and taking TVs, elec­tron­ics, Saints jer­seys, tennis shoes and guns.

   To me, that’s the dif­fer­ence between sur­viv­ing and loot­ing. It’s hard to fault some­one for doing what it takes to feed their family when all the stores are closed … other than the fact that all those idiots should have evac­u­ated when told to numer­ous times. Worst case sce­nario, they should have gone to the dome where they were told to if they could not evac­u­ate the city. Regard­less, the National Guard is sup­posed to be in town tomor­row so the loot­ing will but shut down for the most part.
7. liz says:
   September 1st, 2005 at 11:28 am

   I cant say that I wouldnt take food or even cloth­ing if I was in that posi­tion, but what would I do with a TV? Carry it around until my house is rebuilt and I’ve got a new water dam­aged TV to watch? That obvi­ously wouldnt be pri­or­ity #1, but as a cer­tain some­one at my work would say, black people are different…

   But anyway, all I’m con­cerned about are gas prices and Brett Favre losing his house, poor poor Brett
8. Daniel Andrews says:
   September 1st, 2005 at 12:30 pm

   There is a huge dif­fer­ence between taking what you want, and what you need. I sym­pa­thize for those that are part of all of this, but at the same time, when you live in a com­mu­nity that is 6+ feet below sea level and a hur­ri­cane is coming right for you, you obey what the mayor tells you to do - in this case, either leave town or go to a des­ig­nated shel­ter. Those that stayed behind were one of two types of people:

   1) trying to either pro­tect their belong­ings
   2) exploit­ing the vaccum of power to loot

   either one is mate­ri­al­is­tic in a way. things are just that - things. Take what you can, and get out of there.
9. rick says:
   September 1st, 2005 at 5:30 pm

   Good news…the pipelines are back up and run­ning. For all those idiots that caused panic and spent the better part of their day wait­ing in lines to buy gas, all I have to say is I hope it was worth it. I waited until this morn­ing to get gas and expe­ri­enced no lines at all. Good to see the media doing its job by sen­sa­tion­al­iz­ing unproven rumors yet again. Thanks AJC.
10. Erik says:
    September 1st, 2005 at 6:57 pm

    Does this mean I can stop work on my Hawai­ian Punch pow­ered car?
11. Daniel Andrews says:
    September 1st, 2005 at 7:43 pm

    Work should never stop on the H.P. hybrid. I’ll be in the market for a new car soon, and I could really make use of such an amaz­ing vehi­cle.

    Rick, the pipelines are up already? That’s good news. My par­ents were coming down here this week­end for my brother’s grad­u­a­tion and had a hard time find­ing any gas at all. Even down here most places are out. I think that while people were going nuts over some­thing that may or may not have been true, we are in for a few gas short­ages over the near future … and it’s only a pre­view of what’s to come as more and more people buy trucks and SUVs in our fine coun­try.

    Our demand is increas­ing expo­nen­tially but the supply is not.
12. rick says:
    September 1st, 2005 at 9:15 pm

    at least as far as ATL is con­cerned the pipelines are back run­ning at 50%…..it’s expected to be up to 75% by some­time tomor­row, so this mess is expected to rebound in the near future just as the offi­cials ini­tially said……the chaos yes­ter­day was caused by self­ish idiots that heard a rumor…..there was no shortage…people freak­ing out are the ones that are caus­ing any out­ages that are occur­ing

    one par­tic­u­lar story out of Atlanta involves a man pulling up in a truck and attempt­ing to fill up mul­ti­ple 55 gallon drums full of gas…and im sure this guy is won­der­ing why theres a “shortage,” while at the same time he’s com­pletely obliv­i­ous to the fact that he’s play­ing a cen­tral role in making this rumor come true……i use rumor loosely as im sure there are places along the gulf coast that are gen­uinely out of gas…”shortage” in atlanta means a small hand­ful of sta­tions that have run out
13. Daniel Andrews says:
    September 11th, 2005 at 1:41 am

    Well, I should have saved the images … looks like the site is down now.