[A Citizen Reporter]

What were your poor choice words?

Thugs? Let's just call them bad guys.....

The media got spooked and couldn't report from inside the Superdome?

So then we had a media BLACK OUT unitl GERALDO airlifted himself into NO, right before the military moved in to take over?

[hole_n_one]

Rather than Spooked and Flooding, I could have used Scared and Inundated.

The context in which I used those terms is what makes them, shall we say, awkward.

As far as my earlier use of the term 'thugs', I'll concede I was premature to use that description, but, it looks like it turned out to be accurate..........unless AP comes up with a 5th version.

[McGavin999]

And even Geraldo admitted that no one knew about the convention center. You are confusing the Super Dome with the convention center. The convention center was never meant to be a shelter of any kind.

[Gondring]

The media got spooked and couldn't report from inside the Superdome?

They were kept out by authorities our of respect for the privacy of the refugees. When one network briefly got a camera inside, they were criticized here for violating that. I guess they can't win.