News worthy and Not News Worthy

NEWS WORTHY AND NOT NEWS WORTHY
J.Lewis/RF23 - 2/20/07

You know sometimes when I try to give the local news a chance to do exactly what they say they do, which is report the freaking news. Nine out of ten times, they will fail to open the newscast with something eventful and something that everyone, gives a damn about. So while chilling out, enjoying my long weekend and reflecting on President's day. I turned on my local news and the first story out of the jump was the undiscovered and finally released tape of both late President John F. Kennedy and Jacquline Kennedy - Onasses seconds before the President was (allegedly) assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. The tape was said to be about forty seconds long and basically showed the Presidents motorcade driving right by, with the first lady waving and looking around.
And thats it...The photographer didn't stick around to see or hear what transpired a full 19 seconds laters, cause if he did, and based on his angle, he would have probably caught the actual assasins in or around the grassy knolls area. So what was point of starting the news story with this film. Oh, it was show the country the best footage of the President and Jackie O going by. That little bit of footage effected me and solved the country's greatest "who donnit" how? So now after forty years, we still don't have actual assasins and we still label Oswald as the actual killer of the President....

Story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070219/pl_nm/kennedy_footage_dc



News Worthy: Now this story should have hit every local news channel across the country. Why? because the City of New Orleans is celebrating Mardi Gras for the second time since Hurricane/Flood Katrina along with the assistance of "Operation President Doesn't Care About Black People." And celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans is good thing, it shows that the city has a pulse and ain't dead, and speaking of dead. It seems that the floods, hurricane, and the president is failing to get some people to look at the big picture of getting their lives together, rebuilding their homes and rebuilding their communities. No, Nawlins has some people who haven't missed a beat of committing crimes and continuing the City's high murder per capita rate. And I guess all would be okay, if these individuals were, can we say, in their own hood. (Neighborhood for the folks how are not street inclined) Then the police, oh, wait, The City is experiencing a huge exodus of its own force. Reports have it that seventeen police officers either walked off the job or take jobs some place else every month. The attached news article says there are more problems within the city that would make a cop, not walk, but run to the sweetest deal some place else. You arrest a young hoodlum on Friday nigh and see him ripping and running the streets on Saturday? Hell I'll quit too. But this story didn't make the news. Reports of the Mardi Gras did, but not the crime that is laying the coup de grat to a city that is on life support and a land mass that is living on borrowed time....

http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-02-19T230335Z_01_N19404375_RTRUKOC_0_US-NEWORLEANS-CRIME.xml


More News Worthy Items: Caught this in the Chicago Defender. Of course the defender is one of the oldest black newspapers in the country...So if the writers and editors want to comment on the state of education in the State of Illinois...Then dammit we should listen..Nevermind, what the writer is suggesting has been addressed and dismissed by so called community activist, who are based in that area.

http://www.chicagodefender.com/page/editorial.cfm?ArticleID=8506