Looters & Finders

Posted on 8/30/2005 by Terrance

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Caption: A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Flood waters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday. (Link.)

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Caption: Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Link.)

Did ya catch the difference? Amazing, huh?

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14 Responses to Looters & Finders

  1. silbatron says:
    8/31/2005 at 12:11 am

    that’s insanse, and really frustrating. thanks for posting it though

  2. donna says:
    8/31/2005 at 4:36 am

    Yeah, it makes me ill. It’s not like all the “loot” won’t be covered by insurance, anyway.

    Goog god, these peopel are flooded out of their homes, if they still even have one, and the press is accusing them of looting? Give me a break. These are the folks who were too poor to even be able to GET OUT.

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  4. bucky says:
    8/31/2005 at 11:25 am

    j*s*s f*ck*ng chr*st! a perfect juxtaposition. thanks.

  5. Mark says:
    8/31/2005 at 11:29 am

    Wow … just … wow.

  6. Robin says:
    8/31/2005 at 11:50 am

    Black “looters,” White “finders.” The water depth may change, but perceptions don’t, it seems.

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  9. Justin says:
    8/31/2005 at 5:32 pm

    That’s just wrong.

  10. A. Rickey says:
    9/4/2005 at 10:13 pm

    Of course, then there’s the follow up:

    “When we see people go into businesses and come out with goods, we call it looting,” said Santiago Lyon, AP’s director of photography. “When we just see them carrying things down the road, we call it carrying items.”

    Lyon said the photographer who took Tuesday’s photo, Dave Martin, had seen the man go into the store and take out the items.

    and

    As for the other photo, Getty said it stood by its caption and its photographer, Chris Graythen, who says the subjects of his photo were simply picking up items floating by in the dank waters.

    And Graythen, frustrated by the controversy, wrote an emotional response on a photojournalism Web site, SportsShooter.com.

    “These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics,” he wrote. “They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow.”

    The captions, it seems, reflects what the photographers actually saw.

  11. Jenny K says:
    9/4/2005 at 11:33 pm

    “When we see people go into businesses and come out with goods, we call it looting,”

    Anyone scavenging for food, or even clothes, after having been left to die, with no relief in sight, should not be called a “looter” under any circumstance, whether they broke windows to get to the food or not.

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  13. danny.b says:
    9/8/2005 at 12:40 pm

    We were discussing this in my Communication, Media and Society” class. That’s just not right.

  14. 9Th wonDa says:
    9/20/2005 at 5:26 pm

    thas crazy its the same exact situation except white people in one and black in another… what makes the african american a looter n white a finder thas that bull shit in the world 2day