We have created this kind of journalism though. We want drama and emotion in our journalism. Truth yeah, but we tune in with human interest stories and tune out boring rote drab reporting.
This is just a repost of earlier info all in one place to make it easier to cut & paste in email etc.
President Bush May Have singlehandedly saved thousands of lives.
8-26-05 Friday
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html
Quote: "The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the parishes located in the path of Hurricane Katrina beginning on August 26, 2005,
8-28-05 Sunday
www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?base/news-18/1125239940201382.xml&storylist=louisiana
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the face of a catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, a mandatory evacuation was ordered Sunday for New Orleans by Mayor Ray Nagin.
Acknowledging that large numbers of people, many of them stranded tourists, would be unable to leave, the city set up 10 places of last resort for people to go, including the Superdome.
The mayor called the order unprecedented and said anyone who could leave the city should. He exempted hotels from the evacuation order because airlines had already cancelled all flights.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
In addition, President Bush did something never done before in an impending disaster by a President, he made an unprecedented appeal on television for folks to evacuate because the Mayor and Governor of Louisiana were ineffective in motivating the citizens of their state to evacuate.