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Chartreuse Has Picked His New Orleans Team

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Citizen Journalists after Katrina

You might recall that Chartreuse’s Prince Campbell put down his own money, which was added to by the Blogging Times, the Blogging Herald, and KnowMoreMedia, to send a film and interview team to New Orleans. The crew of three who will be going was announced today on a post on Chartreuse (BETA). The team of three includes:
Mishikea Brathwaite: From Los Angeles, Calf., Travis Campbell: A New Orleans native who now lives in San Francisco, California, and Loren Feldman: From New York, New York. They will be helped when they get there by New Orleans resident, Candice Quates, friend and reader of Succesful Blog.

As Prince said about the trip:

The three people will be meeting in New Orleans on Friday August 11.

There is a Thrifty rental car reserved for them at the Airport.

They will be staying at the Avenue Garden Hotel on St.Charles Ave. in the Garden District of the city. (One of the main reasons I chose it is because of Internet Access. High Speed is not available in some of the hotels I checked.)

Though they will be mostly on their own there are already interviews set up with people in a 150 mile range. These are people who supposedly have first hand knowledge of some of the atrocities mentioned in the email I received.(They will have to do some travelling but this isn’t a vacation.)

The point of this trip is to find out the truth. And to give us a first hand view of what’s happening in the city and the outlying areas.

We’ll be keeping an eye on their travels to hear the stories of what is happening to the real people living in the aftermath of Katrina. Bloggers have the power to make things happen in the most tangible fashion.

Never forget the power of blogging. We can make things happen.

ME “Liz” Strauss

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Chartreuse Offers $1000 for NEW ORLEANS Story

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Prince Puts Up His Own Money

Prince Campbell got an email from Katrina Victims saying that FEMA wouldn’t let them talk to reporters. It bothered him. He posted the email on his blog, but the memory of it wouldn’t go away. He had to do something. So today he made an offer — $1000, a rental car, a place to stay, and a fine video camera to go down there and get the real story.

Look at it as a vacation that matters. . . .

Prince said. I’ll post the story on this site and some others.. . .

Let’s do something important.

The comments that followed raised the ante.

Minic Rivera Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 10:33 am
The Blogging Times would like to sponsor $250 for this noble plan of getting the truth out.

Matt Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 12:40 pm
I’m in for $250. I think we can do a true citizens media event here.

Matty

Andy H Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Andy Hagans Link Building LLC is in for 100usd. [/cheapskate]

Several people volunteered for the job. Several more applauded the idea. Maybe as many said it was crazy and a waste of money, stating that the story has been done and that it’s easy enough to check out without going there.

I wrote the 54th comment a few minutes ago.

Liz Strauss Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 10:15 pm
It seems that some folks have total faith in the media . . . that’s an interesting thought to me. I guess working in publishing has jaded that part of this Pollyanna.

My dad always said don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.

My dad was a really smart man, too. He wuold have liked you a lot, Chartreuse.

What do you think?

–ME “Liz” Strauss”
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