Posted on 09/02/2005 5:53:17 PM PDT by konaice
Having said that, I really don't watch much TV anymore, its always the same, the reporter becomes the story.
Put me on the side that likes the coverage. So many people here bitch about Bill and Shep, but everyone seems to keep watching anyway.
I'm glad you pointed that out. I thought that someone had you tied to a chair with news shows on TV and the remote on the other side of the room
They said there's 30 thousand at the Convention Center so if each reporter is going to take two thousand back to their room...they're going to need more reporters, not less. /sarcasm
If I were there I would be organizing a breakout. Geraldo is tame. He's just projecting the emotions of the people around him instead of interviewing 30,000 people one at a time. I guess some people just don't want to know that this is a horrible tragedy and it's happening now and the authorities (whoever you want to name) aren't getting it done. A lot of camps could have been built and a lot of buses could have run in six days time. They don't have to be nice just get them out of the disaster area.
Good point. Every time Shep reported I couldn't help but notice how calm and controlled the crowd at the interstate was compared to the reports of chaos at the Superdome and the Convention Center. Those people there with him showed more patience and dignity than I could have imagined.
The only thing they seemed to be was safe from the looters and armed thugs roaming the streets of the city.
Get your thinker fixed. And while you're in the garage have them check out the part of you that needs Sheperd Smith and Geraldo Rivera to let you know that something terrible happens when a Cat 4 hurricane strikes a city built in a bowl.
Amen.
Then, like you pointed out, dont' watch tv. Period.
Exactly..It was a ridiculous suggestion. The news people are serving a specific purpose for us and I think Shep has been doing an exceptional job under extraordinary circumstances.
They'll need a HELL of a lot more reporters!!LOL! The people who are recommending that these people follow him out are short sighted and must not have a real grasp of the situation. It's not like the city of New Orleans doesn't work, but the minute you get outside the city, voila! Electricity, water, food! Utopia! The damage is widespread.
I also agree with you that a lot more needs to be done...but also that a lot more could have been done by now. And should have been done before-hand. There were at least 4 days to prepare the city for this. They knew it was coming. Even if a direct hit were not emminent, they knew they would have major damage. When you look at this picture:
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/TRCkatrina240_N5.jpg
You KNOW you will need the National Guard. There should have been MANY more troops ready. They should have used the parking lot full of buses that got flooded to evacuate more people before the storm hit. There are too many should haves.
No offense but I don't need your as a consigliere any more than I need Shepard Smith or Geraldo Rivera to be my conscience.
Monday night Shep was partying because the hurricane had gone through -- Tuesday NO started to flood so that is Day One and today is Friday which is Day Four. Shep didn't find those people until Wednesday BTW so where do you and others get off saying he had been there for five days.
Well said WRT reporters. Orlando Salinas has been solid and professional from the beginning. I've never been a big Shepard Smith fan and his last couple of days of reports have reminded me why.
When the time comes, that is, when this emergency is over, I have a question. Why did the people who were ordered to evacuate not follow orders? For understanding what to do in the future, it seems to me that is more fundamental than any problem of logistics.
And far too many Monday Morning Quaterbacks without all the facts at hand.
Perhaps we can save the energy being devouted to assigning blame until a day or two after an area the size of Great Britain has been secured?
Yeah, Whorealdo was in tears holding that baby. I will give him credit, however, for thinking in terms of solving the problem--he suggested letting them walk out. I didn't realize they couldn't! Heck, I would have found a way to walk out after the first day, or organized an effort to get the crowd to overwhelm the checkpoint at the exit. Forcing people to stay in deplorable conditions like that is something like what Hitler did to certain peoples in the 1940s.
However, I noticed a curious pattern throughout those segments, and also with Col. Hunt. Everytime one of them mentioned a specific mistake or failure to act on the part of the Governor of LA, O'Reilly's immediate response was to restate what they said but rephrase it saying "the federal government" failed to act quickly enough...
I was disappointed with Col. Hunt's report. I thought Phone Bill did a good job of trying to salvage his unorganized babbling. Bill lobbed a softball lead in and he just started an incoherent and irrelevant blather. I wouldn't put this guy in charge of a potato peeling squad. What was the crap about some LA nat'l guard being deployed to Iraq? That's irrelevant. The governor didn't mobilize the entire force she had access to. What was the crap about the LA nat'l guard not going in until they were federalized? The governor doesn't have to have her troops federalized--she commands them (unless they are federalized, which they weren't). O'Reilly's summary, which Col. Dingbat succinctly agreed with, was that the governor failed to mobilize her troops. That has seemed pretty obvious to me for the past four days.
I do have to wonder why nat'l guard or, at the governor's request, federal forces, didn't (and still don't) air drop water where groups of people are clustered. Fecal matter oh dear! One doesn't have to be an intelligence or expert to identify areas where victims have gathered (they have had air assets overhead ever since the storm passed on), you don't need to be a logistics guru to understand basic human needs (water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink), and you don't need to be an ace bombardier to shove a pallet of botted water aiming for an open spot near the targeted crowd. We dropped rations on Afghanistan from the opening moments of that conflict. Why can't we do the same for our people?
Finally, Bush's biggest screwup so far is his new tone was extended to treating the New Orleans mayor and LA governor as if they were competent. I realize he had to do so for a while, but one day of watching them bumblefock around should have been more than enough for him to trump them.
I heard it explained one place, that the hurricane was a possibility. It was a 100% sure thing that if you left, the people around you would break in and take your things. Either way, the people in that situation were screwed.
It hasn't even been five days since the hurricane hit. It hit Monday morning; no flooding until Tuesday (24 hours); Wednesday morning (48 hours); Thursday morning (72 hours); and Friday morning (96 hours) which equals four days. It won't even be five days until tomorrow morning when the hurricane hit the New Orleans area but we have people saying he has been on the ramp for five days.
Can't people count or are they so blind they will believe anything someone from the media tells them. Keep on shouting!
I will have another question to add to that....for the sick, elderly and people with no transportation who couldn't physically leave but wanted to:
Why couldn't the city use all of these buses to get those people out of the city?:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050901/480/flpc21109012015
If they didn't have drivers....heck, give somebody a key and let them leave.
It's liberal/welfare policy in action. Dem voters who wanted a nanny state and they've got one. The city itself existed due to Fed taxpayers propping up the levee system. Liberal tolerance of diversity is in play too. The people are suffering additional extensive pain and danger due to the criminals they harbor and ignore amongst them. What kind of criminal laws and judges do you think they've voted for? It's a Marxist wet dream. (pun intended)
Perhaps you should go back to not watching TV.
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