When you hear it from the horses mouth, i.e. NOLA's Chief of Police, NOLA's Chief of Homeland Security and the First Army Commander? Yes, I know what I heard.
Dismissive comments about the MSM are not appropriate when you are getting first hand comments from the main actors. Say what you please about the MSM. More often than not, they alone have the resources for first hand reporting. The Internet and talk radio are usually second hand reports, opinion and commentary.
I admit to being polemic on the subject, but can you disagree that hearing comments "from the horse's mouth" as you say, can not only be misleading, but deliberately misleading?
It is the biggest source of misinformation there is. When a "respected" news source like CBS shows a talking head with no context with words spewing out of his/her mouth for 15 seconds, what you hear and what you see is no accident.
That 15 seconds may have been cut for a specific reason, such as conserving valuable airtime. However, can you agree that the cut may be made a particular (and in sometimes not so subtle) way to make a specific point?
You may think it is not "appropriate" to make dismissive comments about the MSM, but I would disagree. I think it is vital to be skeptical.
Should we ever trust CBS again after the National Guard Memo incident? Was it not perpetrated at the highest levels of management at CBS? Why should I listen to one single word they say? Do you think that was an isolated case?