True enough.
It is called selective reality.
The people on the ground there see the devastation, rotting corpses, hungry children, etc and are not put off by the sight of a corpse. For them, that is reality.
To the air conditioned, well-fed crowd, a corpse on TV may be too much for them to bear.
I wonder if this generation would have tolerated the deprivations of the Great Depression or World War II as well as ancestors did?
The reality of the New Orleans is that once the relief effort finally gets organized and on site; it will be too late for the thousands trapped there.
Some of my coworkers are already there. Other teams left earlier today. New from the stricken area is not good, nothing encouraging so far.
I'm at a place where there is substantial ramp up for relief teams. And I hope I don't have to stay here in the rear, but that's not my call.