Yet more on media foolishness on class and disaster impact

Joseph Palermo, a professor of history at Sacramento State, provides this useful corrective to the "disaster knows no class distinction" coverage in the mainstream media. It's interesting that the "new media" seems more likely to find the nuances and the more interesting and important questions than is the "mainstream media." Perhaps it's because some bloggers, who are not journalists, are not conditioned by their training and socialization to use the same story frames, which, in describing horror, actually are intended to provide some reassurance as to the ultimate fairness of, say, disasters as some sort of social leveler. Funny, no one talks about how the Panic of '08 was some great social leveler.