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There was not-great stuff then too. Wolf Blitzer, for example, seemed to rise quickly and get a lot of air time mostly because he happened to be the one doing

• selimthegrim 5y ago
  Wolf Blitzer was the one who observed off the cuff that the Katrina refugees he was seeing were "so poor, and so black"
  • gord288 5y ago
    Awkwardly worded and delivered, but it seems his observation was that Black residents were disproportionately negatively affected by Katrina. A perfectly valid point. I am by no means a defender of Blitzer--his interviews and his framing of issues show him to be a banal thinker--but I feel he received a lot of undeserved criticism for this utterance. Which seemed at the time to mostly come from bad-faith actors like Rush Limbaugh, taking a cheap shot.
    • selimthegrim 5y ago
      The time to say that is not when the camera is panning across an extremely dark-skinned family wading.