I seriously hope that you are never in need of those emergency planners and rescuers, and that you never have to experience what you are taking so lightly now.
"If you think watching TV is a priority to pulling people off rooftops, then, it's just absolutely beyond me to even attempt further explaination."
These are different functions. In a normal emergency command structure, you have people on the front lines doing the emergency work and rescues, and you also have a command structure coordinating the efforts, assessing incoming data from many sources and then sending out orders. This may well have broken down in this situation, and again, that is not a media problem. The LA government appears to have been caught completely flat-footed.
Nice chatting with you. Best wishes --