Posted on 09/06/2005 10:50:24 AM PDT by jmc1969
Washington - "For God's sake, are you blind?," a woman shouts at the head of the federal emergency management agency (FEMA), Michael Brown.
"You're patting each other on the back, while people here are dying."
The woman is not a victim of Hurricane Katrina. She is a reporter with US television network MSNBC
"Katrinagate" is the term being used by the media to describe the biggest challenge facing the political establishment in the US since the Watergate affair in the 1970s toppled Richard Nixon.
Not for decades has there been such merciless questioning of the president and his administration by the US media.
Even now, as the rescue operation gets underway in earnest and the flood waters in New Orleans are starting to subside, the federal government's inadequate reaction - in the run-up to the hurricane and directly afterwards - is still being criticized by the media in reports which are anything but detached.
Never before, say some observers, have US reporters been so emotionally involved in a story to the point of being enraged.
They are not just telling a story, they have become part of it.
"Has Katrina saved the US media,?" asked BBC reporter Matt Wells who sees the shift in tone as a potentially historic development.
The usually stoic ABC television presenter Ted Koeppel lashed out at FEMA head Brown in a interview, when he could not give any details on the number of refugees waiting to be rescued from the Convention Centre.
"Don't you people ever look at television?," the veteran presenter raged.
"Don't you ever hear the radio? We've been reporting on the crisis at the Convention Centre for a lot longer than just today."
Like a Hoover.
7) Under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, the Federal Government and FEMA are not allowed to interfere with local operations unless they are authorized by state and local leaders. Blanco did not authorize this until September 1, 2005.
(8) FEMA was there and helping, in the capacity that was allowed by local officials, but could not swing into full gear until after Blanco gave them permission.
That would be Wednesday September 1, 2005
There. Fixed a factual error in this sentence.
Actually, it seems to me that the furor is dying down now. No doubt the MSM will try to keep it going, but heck, even Clinton has said that now is not the time...
How about Nagingate or Emptyschoolbusgate?
Blanco requested FEMA's help with DEBRIS REMOVAL:
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Disaster%20Relief%20Request.pdf
Debris removal.
""Has Katrina saved the US media,?" asked BBC reporter Matt Wells who sees the shift in tone as a potentially historic development."
In the final analysis, it may have actually assisted in its self-immolation. The more I see and hear and read, the more I know that the MSM does NOT have our best interests at heart.
Thanks for posting this, but the original author needs to come down off his drug high before writing any more.
Could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.
No agenda here.
Blanco requested FEMA's help with DEBRIS REMOVAL:
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Disaster%20Relief%20Request.pdf
Debris removal.
I just thought I'd repeat that. Since she didn't think it was important to ask for other help until September 1st.
I've never seen such horrible leadership in my entire life. Ever. And I've been saying it since the day before the storm even hit when it became evident the only reason a mandatory evacuation was ordered was because the president called and pressed them to do it.
I wonder how many little children were raped because Blanco waited to call in the National Guard?
How about GangstaThugGate?
I think the media persons that have been on the scene since the beginning, probably know more about what it si really like than anyone else...except for the actual residents.
Well, the difference between those other things is people actually care about what happened in NOLA.
Reporters are supposed to be dispassionate about what they cover.
I'm sure this reporter was affected by what she saw in NO and the Gulf Coast. I now I'd probably feel the same way
But now she has lost any thin veneer of journalistic objectivity (she may have thought she had) when she shouted out at Michael Brown.
She needs to be removed from her position immediately and transferred elsewhere. She's not doing her profession any good and she's not doing the public any good.
I have watched coverage pretty close, I think it was Thursday before I heard anything about the Convention Center. Chertoff, said it was Thursday before the locals told FEMA that people were at the convention center. Plenty of talk about the Super Dome, before Thursday but I don't recall the convention center till Thursday. Anyone know difference.
The leftists media are trying to relive their glory years of the'70s when they brought down Nixon and the U.S. military in Vietnam. Communists through and through.
Golf ball thru a catheter tube.
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