[AZ_Cowboy]

The real question now appears to be who distorted the stories more, Nagin and crew or the press itself?

[JRios1968]

I vote for "all of the above."

[El Gato]

The stories were not completely false. There were several pictures of a body, a young black man, outside the convention center, that was definitely not a victim of winds or flood. Large puddle and stream of dried or drying blood around the body. Various "baggy pants worn below the hips types shown in different photos lifting the cover over the body, presumably to see if he had been someone they knew. At least one other photo of a family walking past the body.

And there were others as well that looked to have died an unnatural violent death.

[Deetes]

Really Shep and Geraldo should be put on the weeper list too..

[dila813]

Your WRONG!

The real question is, "If this wildly flawed & exaggerated reporting can happen in the US, what do you think is really going on in Iraq?"

[laz]

The media wasn't caught up in any hysteria. They knew exactly what they were doing. It was deliberate. The worse they could make things appear, the worse they could make Bush look. That's all there is to it.

Oprah stood outside the Superdome and looked us right in the eye and demanded that America apologize. It is YOU who should apologize to America, Oprah, for staging an entire show around liars and lies. For giving Nagin and Compass a forum to spout pure BS. But I won't expect that apology to be forthcoming. You don't have the class, and you are a fraud.

What's the difference between Rather forging false documents and Oprah televising a false show? Nagin's and Compass's hysterical claims were fake but accurate, I suppose. That's the way it is in the Twilight Zone the liberals inhabit. Whatever you wish to be real is real, even if it isn't.

[WasDougsLamb]

Nagin decried “animalistic” behavior with “drug-starving crazy people . . . degraded into these devils.”
Post-hysteria reporting has not been kind to the general media coverage of the crisis.


----Post-hysteria reporting ? We call it "lying" here in Virginia.

[driftless]

The debacle in La and NO was just another example of why Big Media cannot be trusted. I'm willing to bet that virtually every journalistic hack (liberal) writing about the situation desperately tried to work in some anti-Bush invective into their "reports" regardless of the facts involved. I've never read or seen so much misinformation concerning a tragedy of this magnitude. But with our current crop of "journalists" this is what we can expect.