[papertyger]

The complete invisibility of those who were injured also puzzles me. It seems ominous. There's just this mention now and then of 'bodies' and they switch to something else.

I noticed that myself. Shepard Smith gave quite a bit of time to Mississippi at the start of his show this evening.

I thought it curious that he would be so emphatic about the sheer devastation wrought against the state, but only give passing mention to the human toll.

At one point, a reporter showed mud half a foot deep on the roadway. She said that mud was churned up sea-bottom that washed ashore. She also said the spot they were showing was TWO MILES inland!

Honestly, the whole thing reminded me of a seeBS one-hour documentary on Joe McCarthy aired few years ago.

Dan Rather spent the entire hour documenting how disliked McCarthy was without ever actually telling the viewer anything McCarthy actually did.

[George W. Bush]

I thought it curious that he would be so emphatic about the sheer devastation wrought against the state, but only give passing mention to the human toll. At one point, a reporter showed mud half a foot deep on the roadway. She said that mud was churned up sea-bottom that washed ashore. She also said the spot they were showing was TWO MILES inland!

Well, I suppose someone will Shep-bash over his MS coverage. But that story about seabed mud so far inland really does boggle the mind.

It makes me think that NOLA really did miss the Big One and that MS is the bigger story.