Posted on 09/17/2005 3:49:48 PM PDT by rvoitier
At times, the ethnic media have been more opinionated and outspoken, and in many cases have taken a more activist approach than mainstream news organizations and tried to help members of their ethnic groups who have suffered from the storm.
And the truth is on the net.
bfl
For example, they have been reuniting families and finding housing for refugees, said Daffodil Altan, associate editor of New California Media, a nationwide association of more than 700 ethnic media groups.
Ms Daffodil must not have gotten the memo!
Dr. Stanley Tillinghast is the cardiologist whom John wrote about in "A doctor reports from the front." When Hurricane Katrina hit, Dr. Tillinghast cashed in some miles for a plane ticket to Jackson, Mississippi, rented a car, and started driving until he came to people who needed his help. He is now writing at Dr. Goodheart (as John explained, he means your heart, not his) to record his experiences. Dr. Tillinghast writes:
I have some new posts up:
1. About the Vietnamese community in Biloxi;
2. About our failed attempts to work with the Red Cross;
3. About the flooded hospital in Bay St. Louis and the Carolina mobile hospital there--why it's there and not New Orleans;
4. I'm just going to post about the religious Cold War in the Vietnamese community, and how it drives an American to say **** it.
Hmmmmm.
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