Thursday, September 29, 2005
Yes, I know it's hard to curb your kittenish curiosity, but horning in on Peaseblossom when she's engaged on the litterbox is a sure-fire way to get yourself a royal hissing - or perhaps you've learned that now.
-Mom
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Here's a news article I haven't been seeing in the U.S. press - it seems those lurid stories of lord-of-the-flies behavior amongst the urban poor in New Orleans post-Katrina were largely untrue.
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I'm completely not surprised.
At the time there was a lot of hysteria; when the dust settled and the real numbers were determined, sure it was still a hurricane and a flood, there's no minimizing that, but society hadn't completely broken down.
I've seen this before, in other events.
As I remarked at the time: There are a lot of reports coming out of there. Communications are bad and redundant reports will make it seem worse.
If twenty people see the same incident and they all report it, until the reports are filtered, it can easily seem like twenty incidents instead of one. Especially in a bad situation.
Filtering out the actual story will be a job for the journalists and historians. It's already starting.
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Patrick Connors, at
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