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By Michelle Martin (registered) - website | Posted January 28, 2010 at 07:13:53

Here are some interesting thoughts on how the MSM, in the interests of a good headline, don't go after or tell the whole story. Rebecca Solnit (I first heard her on CBC radio not long ago and was glad to come across this article she's written) writes about the use of the word "looters" in the wake of disasters like the Haiti earthquake:

Within days of the Haitian earthquake, for example, the Los Angeles Times ran a series of photographs with captions that kept deploying the word “looting.” One was of a man lying face down on the ground with this caption: “A Haitian police officer ties up a suspected looter who was carrying a bag of evaporated milk.” The man’s sweaty face looks up at the camera, beseeching, anguished.

“Conviction without experience makes for harshness. ” Flannery O'Connor

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