What were the most pivotal stories from 2005 for you?

[Horse with no Name]

The ones that touched me the most were:
Terri Schiavo, Sun Hudson, Andy's battle with cancer, hijacking of the SCOTUS, and the one thing that has me the most fearful is the assault on women's rights.
I just sent a check to the AAUW yesterday because I am extremely concerned about my daughter's and granddaughter.

Edited because I cannot think straight right now.:evilgrin:

[CrispyQ]

1. So many stories . . .

>> The Downing Street Minutes -- yes, the 'intelligence' was manipulated.

>> The scandalous, appalling & shameful handling of Katrina -- & more so today, three months later, to see what little has been done to help the poor people of NOLA while CNN sponsers a NOLA New Year's event. :puke:

>> The Wiretap scandal. The U.S. Constitution is just a "god damned piece of paper" after all.


Like you, the War on Women's Rights is front & center in my awareness. That and the diminishing of the separation of church & state.

What have they done to my country? :cry:

[longship]

2. I suggest two categories.

Category One -- Stories which were important because of their impact.

Category Two -- Stories which, if they were reported, would have great importance/impact.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. The one that was most pivotal for me was the Gannon story

because when I realized that the media was not covering an amazing, bizarre, unique in the annals of politics story about a gay prostitute with no prior news experience elevated to White House correspondant with friends in high places story. That is when it became clear once and for all that the fix was in.

[pitohui]

4. there is only one story

our newspaper said simply, each year we publish the year's top 10 stories

this year there is only one story

i shouldn't even have to say what it is, it should be obvious, but apparently it isn't since it isn't on your list!

we have never had a natural destruction to cause such widespread devastation over such a large region of the usa before, never, and hopefully it will never happen again

but that's the pivotal story, that's the dare i say it, the alpha and the zeta, the beginning and the end

hurricane season 2006, scheduled to open june 1, has opened today, at the turn of the year, because of tropical storm zeta, in other words, the 2005 season never ended, we just ran out of days on the calendar

everything else is footnote compared to the utter destruction of the gulf coast

[ohio_liberal]

5. Indeed

Great post, and all so true :thumbsup:

[Horse with no Name]

6. Here you go...again

"i shouldn't even have to say what it is, it should be obvious, but apparently it isn't since it isn't on your list!"



You have NO idea what I did to help Katrina victims.
None whatsoever. Your post is, again, mean spirited and hateful. I'm getting used to it though when I see your name replying to my postings.

However, it was NOT the ONLY important story of the year.
In Louisiana, since you live there, I would expect the newspaper to say nothing else, but there were MANY things that were pivotal this year and not all of them were natural disasters--some of them were man made.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

7. I don' t equate pivotal with most important

I took "pivotal" to mean "view altering" which the Gannon story was for me. Until then, I simply presumed that we had a fourth estate or media that would report the news of the day. They didn't.

The most important news of the year was without question Katrina and the government's complete and total failure to respond in a meaningful way to the natural calamity that hit the Gulf Coast of the United States. It was the greatest shame of our lifetimes that American citizens died in plain sight on American television. The news is still outpouring. We do not yet have an accurate deathcount. Thousands died while Bush played guitar and ate cake and Brownie worried whether he had enough time to eat in a Baton Rouge restaurant and how his Nordstrom duds played on TV.

If W wants to talk about "shameful acts" he should look at his inaction(s) to save American lives. Why wasn't the search and rescue called in when it would have meant something? Why didn't he get people out of the hellhole of the Astrodrome? Why didn't he mount a meaningful recovery when rescue was no longer an issue?