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Originally posted by RACooper
I'd saying being an apolgist is as bad as an educated fool... because the "scenario" you described sounds pretty BS to me - one the effort required to grab a plasma screen TV would be a hell of a lot less that aquiring food or diapers (or a subsitute). Besides it's not like the looting happened only after days of frustration or desperation - it happened pretty much immediately... I mean just look at the Webcam site I posted in the Chit Chat thread about the hurricane.
If your under the impression that the looting was a media manufactured or inflated problem then I'm sorry to say you are the one looking like the educated fool.
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plasma tv was an object used FIGURATIVELY to describe a "scenario" that may be occuring. Maybe not with a plasma tv, but none the less, it could have happened with jewelry or whatever object you want to replace that particular object, or like you say "a substitute."
I didn't know I had to be specific.
My understanding and EXPERIENCE with the media, as a public relations specialist, my background as an activist and my EDUCATION, etc. reinforces
my opinion of the media and
how the media
changes your perception of what you are seeing. Things aren't always as they appear to be.
In that little world that you live in, everything me be prim and proper. But
I live in the REAL world, where propaganda exists.
To you I may seem like an educated fool. Educated I am, but not a fool. You see, I think of all of the possibilities. I don't allow myself to be led by our media. I
THINK for myself. Only lazy people sit back and let the media tell them what to think. As I said before, things aren't always what they APPEAR to be. I'm not saying that no one is looting. Maybe they are. But we can't generalize it and say that people aren't looting for a reason. One of the primary reasons is survival. I can't speak on behalf of everyone and neither can you.
It has been said that,
if you argue with a fool it's hard to tell who the fool is. I'm not arguing with you. I stated my opinion to help enlighten your mind and stimulate your intellect. You're entitled to your own opinion as well.