Comments on: New Orleans Only Need Apply http://www.peacebang.com/2006/03/22/new-orleans-only-need-apply/ The manic mind of the minister -- Auntie Mame Meets Cotton Mather Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:19:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Chalicechick http://www.peacebang.com/2006/03/22/new-orleans-only-need-apply/#comment-1497 Chalicechick Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:42:05 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/03/22/new-orleans-only-need-apply/#comment-1497 I do see what you're saying, but I don't particularly see it as the problem you do for a few reasons. <br/><br/> People losing their homes in rural areas sucks, too, but it happens all the time. Just about every hurricaine or tornado takes out a bunch of rural homes, farms and even sometimes small towns. Every hurricaine does not take out historical landmarks and city that many, many news viewers has visited. <br/><br/>New Orleans is local to people's imaginations in a way that rural Mississippi is not. <br/><br/>Is it fair?<br/><br/>No, but it is not particularly fair that endangered tigers are easier to get angry about and write legislation for than endangered insects. (Even though some people posit that future cancer cures lie in the body chemistry of rare rainforest insects.)<br/><br/>It's just the way people's heads work. If the compelling images on the news keep money coming in to relief organizations, I'm not really all that concerned that their (probably correct) conception of what images will arouse people's emotions does not include reporting that rural people were hit, too. <br/><br/>CC I do see what you’re saying, but I don’t particularly see it as the problem you do for a few reasons.

People losing their homes in rural areas sucks, too, but it happens all the time. Just about every hurricaine or tornado takes out a bunch of rural homes, farms and even sometimes small towns. Every hurricaine does not take out historical landmarks and city that many, many news viewers has visited.

New Orleans is local to people’s imaginations in a way that rural Mississippi is not.

Is it fair?

No, but it is not particularly fair that endangered tigers are easier to get angry about and write legislation for than endangered insects. (Even though some people posit that future cancer cures lie in the body chemistry of rare rainforest insects.)

It’s just the way people’s heads work. If the compelling images on the news keep money coming in to relief organizations, I’m not really all that concerned that their (probably correct) conception of what images will arouse people’s emotions does not include reporting that rural people were hit, too.

CC

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