Jack Shafer Quotations

It's very odd to look at. This is the duck-billed platypus of journalism, an egg-laying mammal with fur - it's just something very bizarre.

Nearly every rescued person, temporary resident of the Superdome, looter or loiterer on the high ground of the freeway I saw on TV was African-American. And from the look of it, they weren't wealthy residents of the Garden District. This storm appears to have hurt blacks more directly than whites, but the broadcasters scarcely mentioned that fact.

I think it is hard in the Internet era for a monthly magazine to keep current with ideas and events. They might be in the position the daily newspaper was in in 1958 when television came in.

Why the measured, slow, and wimpy response? Has the editorial board gone vegetarian ?

I also think that anyone in late years of college is anxious about their future, asking themselves, 'What do I want to do? Also, I think that we all live vicariously through children and these kind of trend stories are an expression of adult anxiety.

In their frenzy to beat freshness into the endless loops of disaster footage that have been running all day, broadcasters might have mentioned that nearly all the visible people left behind in New Orleans are of the black persuasion, and mostly poor.