Spike Lee's new doc on Katrina/BP oil spill

arenel wrote on 8/26/2010, 2:51 PM
Anyone care to comment on Spike Lee's HBO doc?

I found the interview technique hard to take . He had some footage that I had never seen before, some quite powerful images. But being a geezer and from the school that the audience shouldn't be aware of the camera, I had some problems.

Ralph Nelson

Comments

Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/26/2010, 4:18 PM

I make it a habit to never make any comments about Spike Lee or his films.

ushere wrote on 8/26/2010, 4:44 PM
i'm with jay on this one ;-)
PeterWright wrote on 8/26/2010, 5:53 PM
> "I make it a habit to never make any comments about Spike Lee or his films."

- and now you have, Jay ;)
craftech wrote on 8/26/2010, 6:14 PM
There has been a net decrease in affordable housing in New Orleans in the four years since Katrina. The goal of the Bush administration was to lessen the number of affordable houses to drive out the poor and keep most of them out. The corporate media in it's complicity have largely ignored the plight of the poor in that region. With their lack of focus the nation's lack of focus followed suit. 12,000 are homeless there now. Twice the number of homeless that were there before Katrina. Bus services are gone. Salaries are a fraction of what they were. Spike Lee was seeking to redraw attention to the situation there. He probably should have left out the BP Oil spill, because unlike "When the Levees Broke" this one kind of rambled.

John
Jay Gladwell wrote on 8/27/2010, 4:11 AM

"... - and now you have..."

Very astute, Peter. ;o)