"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 --
They did a real disservice to those who were working their butts off by implying they did nothing to help people.
The general impression, as shown by how the rest of the media climbed on the bash Bush bandwagon, is that it was a failure of FEMA and G W Bush personally.