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Marthe48

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3. The media is complicit in politicizing the fire disaster
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 08:19 AM
Jan 2025

I read that Kevin Kline told people who were leaving their cars parked on the road and walking to evacuate to leave the keys so the fire fighters could move the cars if they were in the way. Taylor Swift donated $10 million and Travis Kelse donated $1 million to help victims.

But you'll hear about things as you mentioned, and instead of reporting what is in front of their faces, news and updates people need to hear, you'll get backyard petty backstabbing. Just keep the gd pot boiling.

Compare the coverage of these life altering life threatening, fires to the coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The resilient isolated mountain folk and the city slickers. The fact that a lot of the people who lost everything as ordinary people who happen to live near Los Angeles is lost on the media. Not every person in LA is a celebrity, but you can bet no matter what status the survivors are assigned, they are all in the same dire straits and they are helping each other.



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