Re: <nettime> Critiquing the media shitstorm

[{ brad brace } <bbrace@eskimo.com>]

.. just back from 3 months in Japan (an outlying Yaeyama
island: Hateruma) -- despite many warnings, we were not
affected by the tsunmai but the continual TV reportage of
the massive devastation was mind-boggling: houses, boats,
cars, people all just swept away... I was very impressed by
the near-instanteous 'rebound,' spirit and support of the
Japanese people: pretty sure such an inevitable event
wouldn't transpire that way in the Terror-Land...

/:b


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