Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media?

BBC News ^ | Monday, 5 September 2005 | By Matt Wells

[CzarNicky]

No, the dinosaur media remains on its course for extinction.

[kb2614]

Rubbish.

[Echo Talon]

Katrinagate? Yea, it sure is for Blanco & Nagin :)

[F14 Pilot]

Check the source link and leave a message for them there.

[wildcatf4f3]

forgot the BARF alert!!! alwost killed me.

[jwalsh07]

"Leaving the poor in New Orleans was the moral equivalent of leaving the injured on the battlefield."

Now what would David Brooks know about being poor or being on the battlefield? Obviously nothing because the battlefield is populated by a lot of poor people who don't leave their buddies. The CIC does not put their injured and lame bodies around their necks or on their backs and haul them off, it is the soldier who does it.

There's a lesson in there.

[uncitizen]

How 'bout "schoolbusgate"?

[MNJohnnie]

You mean the same media that spent all last week screaming "It's all Bush's fault" then reports in the Sunday Set 4th Washington Post, at the very bottom of the article, that President Bush is STILL asking the State of Louisiana to grant the Feds control over the Rescue efforts in NO? How is it "All Bush's fault" if Gov Blanco has been in charge all last week? BTW Dinosaurs, the Gov is still saying NO.

So one again, the Dinosaur Media, by posturing and playing political games in the midst of tragedy, has blown off it's own foot. The truth is getting out and it not Bush that is being hurt by this nonsense.

[billybudd]

Wow, this thing is sopping with desperation. "Please, please, for the love of God, let this be another Watergate." There may be a lot of water, but this ain't no Watergate. Sorry commie libs. Maybe next time (not).

[Echo Talon]

Yep, Busgate is a good one since he didn't even follow his own "plan".

[F14 Pilot]

I was just comparing the level of news coverage coming out of NO and Mississipi.

NO is run by Dems
Mis. is run by Republicans.

BIG DIFFERENCE

[uncitizen]

OK then it's settled. Spread the word. The word is "Busgate".

[kb2614]

My message to the BBC wouldn't be printable. No, Katrina did not save the US media. In fact, it exposed them for the partisan hacks they are. Bodies weren't even cold yet and they were already piling on the President. Morons.

[GretchenM]

Yes, it saved the media from feeding cable addicts yet one more day on Natalie and Cindy rehash.

[tommix2]

This brazen propaganda is so ridiculous that it may well back fire on the MSM.

[freebilly]

Puke.

[Paleo Conservative]

There were helicopters that tried to start rescuing people in New Orleans on Wednesday, but snipers on the ground started shooting at them. Are we supposed to treat all hurricane relief operations as if we are taking hostile cities? The national guard helicopters were not armed, because they didn't expect someone would actually try to stop them from doing their jobs. Sure they could carry weapons and ammunition, but the extra weight either reduces their range or payload making them less effective in their role of rescuing and airlifting people.

[pepsionice]

In a few weeks...the next hurrican will arrive...probably in Florida. And the media will notice very few deaths and minimum Fed involvment...and then they will have drop the NO episode because something drastically was wrong with NO in the first place...before any hurricane ever came. Those media outlets who continue on...will have public questions to answer about why one region was ready and the other was not...and I doubt that even Dan Rather would like to answer that question.

[Hess28]

GO TO LINK TO LEAVE YOUR THOUGHTS!

TIME TO LAY INTO BBC.