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Post by waymaker2010 on Sept 4, 2010 16:48:20 GMT -5
Has anyone watched? Thoughts. Do you think we have done enough to help the people in the gulf and New Orleans?
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Post by peppermint on Sept 5, 2010 0:26:45 GMT -5
I wish I had HBO
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Post by Cambist on Sept 8, 2010 17:25:27 GMT -5
I thought it was good but went a bit off topic with the oil spill. I get what he was trying to do but it just seemed out of place.
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Post by Sapphire on Sept 9, 2010 17:09:45 GMT -5
I haven't seen it yet. I can't believe it's been 5 years. I'll check it out soon.
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Post by T-Rex91 on Sept 20, 2010 7:42:30 GMT -5
Spike is an amazing documentary film maker and I thought he did a phenomenal job as with "When the Levees Broke". Between him and Soledad, everybody else can exit the game.
I get the reasons that they work hard to leave the impression that NO is back 100% (tourism $$$$$) but there are some very real issues that have persisted there for 5 years and I'm golad he shone a light on them.
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Post by denounced on Sept 23, 2010 11:14:06 GMT -5
The fact is that New Orleans can have Superbowl winning team, a place that got rebuilt and generates millions of dollars, and a team of individuals that probably make more than what it cost to fix, yet N.O. is still left behind. I just saw an ESPN doucumentary where a school had a gymnasium that was in shambles for 2-3 years. Houses rebuilt next to boarded up homes. Call it greed, nihilism, racial, etc. Bottom line, we basically treated N.O. no different than Haiti. A whole lot of talk came out of the WH, but what's getting done. There's not enough oversight in the game of money. There's not enough morally capable people handling the money. I know someone who wnet to N.O. last summer (2009). She said it still looks horrible. The question is Why?
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Post by denounced on Sept 23, 2010 11:22:26 GMT -5
The levees were no one's fault but the people's and the government. Both are responsible parties and it all goes back to the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$. They'd rather waste money on anything but the levees, now and before Katrina. Everybody wants to blame the Nazis for all the killing in Germany, but there's a more sinister reality behind that. So the same goes for the issue with the levees, there is much more to it than what happened. It's what happened before that gives rise to the current attitude NOW?
When it comes to doing documentaries, people need to leave their personal presuppositions behind. If you can't do that, get out of journalism.
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Post by **Dea** on Sept 24, 2010 2:36:25 GMT -5
LOL!
<===N.O. resident pre and post Katrina
<===has seen neither documentary
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