Reply #92: How big is the looting problem, really? [View All]

[Dogmudgeon]

FOX news keeps playing the same two clips over and over, one of which shows no actual looting, only a bunch of black people standing in knee-deep water milling around.

I can't find anything that indicates that this is a looters' holiday. Most of the looters have been described as taking food and other necessities. There has been no violence among the looters, as is common with "traditional" looting for luxury items. I'm sure that there is some of that kind of looting taking place, too, but it's absurd in a situation like this. If their homes are under water, where can they take their purloined TVs and video games, anyway?

There's only one conclusion I can draw right now -- the reports of looting are agit-prop to get chronic hotheads to tune into the news station to watch the evil looters getting away with their foul crimes. Many people are drawn to news reports that make them rant in rage. I think this is one such example.

The survivors in New Orleans are in an unenviable predicament. Looting is the least of the worries of the survivors and the emergency workers. For FOX to flog the looting footage the way they do is, well, Foxian.

--p!