Month: September 2005
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Why did the media know more than the government this week?
All week long, anyone reading a newspaper, listening to the radio, watching a television, or checking a blog in their RSS reader knew more than the President of the United States and his high-level staff seemed to know about what was going on in New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi, and everywhere else torn up by Hurricane…
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Marilyn Sholin Outside The Frame – Master Craftsman Photographer – Portrait Artist – Miami, New York – Painter Classes :: NEW ORLEANS ART RAISES FUNDS FOR RED CROSS :: September :: 2005
Marilyn Sholin Outside The Frame – Master Craftsman Photographer – Portrait Artist – Miami, New York – Painter Classes :: NEW ORLEANS ART RAISES FUNDS FOR RED CROSS :: September :: 2005
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Hurricane Katrina People Finder – Volunteers Needed
Already gave your money? Give some time by turning bunches of bulletin board posts spread all over the Internet into a searchable database to help people find their friends and family. Start here. Sit on your couch, relax, and help people with a little data entry. [tags]Katrina, help, peoplefinder[/tags]
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SJSU takes in students displaced by Hurricane Katrina
On Friday, the San Jose Business Journal reported that the CSU system is throwing open the doors to any students from Gulf Coast states displaced by Hurricane Katrina, and to California students who had planned on attending schools in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama. SJSU President Don Kassing sent out this message late Friday. [tags]SJSU[/tags]
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SJSU 35 – Eastern Washington 24
I am now officially enrolled at a university with a winning college football team. I can’t wait to go to a game. Check out Journalism dept. undergrad Jason Fithian’s photos and commentary from Saturday’s 35-24 win over Eastern Washington. [tags]SJSU[/tags]
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Give It Away, Part 2
We went ahead and made a donation to the Red Cross, but we also gave to Best Friends Animal Society. Best Friends runs a huge animal sanctuary in Utah and works hard to educate people about spaying and neutering their pets. Now they’re on the ground in New Orleans, helping to rescue animals off the…
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Give it away
Given what I’ve written today about the media’s framing of different disasters and the importance of keeping events in perspective as they relate to each other, I want to go ahead and say that I’m closely following the real and ongoing human disaster in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast. If this…
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I Heart The BBC & A POV Roundup
KQED radio (88.5 FM) out of San Francisco is my public radio station on the San Jose side of “the hill.” Two nights a week now, I drive home to Santa Cruz late enough to catch the BBC World Service report – it’s all international news, all the time. I love it. Not only because…