Oh, come now. You can't be that dense. The point is that the MSM was reporting on and was well aware of what was transpiring down there. I gave you the other link from the Times-Picayune. Days elapsed before anything was done, which tainted the whole relief effort, however unfairly. As I indicated to you an earlier post, I only did a quick check. The bottom line is that situation at the convention center was known to the media and at least to the city officials.
Stranded Spain MP describes Katrina chaos
CNN) -- A Spanish member of parliament stranded in New Orleans has described a dire situation at the city's Convention Center, including dead bodies inside the building.
Lourdes Muñoz Santamaria, her husband and his 10-year-old son were on vacation in New Orleans and were unable to get a flight out of the city before Hurricane Katrina struck.
They ended up at the New Orleans Convention Center, where Muñoz used a pay phone to make several calls to a journalist friend in Madrid to describe the conditions. (See the video report of thousands stranded among filth and corpses -- 2:54)
The journalist, Montserrat Boix of Spain's state television TVE, said Muñoz told her the situation at the center was steadily deteriorating and that authorities were unaware of the magnitude of the problem.
According to Boix, Muñoz said dead bodies were inside the center and others were outside, with no one removing them.
Muñoz also told Boix there was no water at the center, and that when a few evacuation buses pulled up to the center Wednesday [August 31], there was a scramble to get aboard and only the strongest made it, because no authorities were on hand to direct a more-orderly evacuation.
Later, Muñoz described the situation to CNN partner station CNN+ in Madrid.
"It's everyone for himself. The police and army pass by the center, but here no one is organizing anything," she said.
"There are people injured because last night (Wednesday) there were stampedes in the dark because the people were waiting for buses and only five came."Then there was a stampede over a loud sound -- someone said it was a shot fired. There was screaming. People can't see anything at night. There are people bad off, without any help."
The local residents stranded at the center, she said, "are starting to doubt their government. We've been here more than 24 hours without being able to move. We all came here because they said we'd be evacuated in planes or buses or boats and that it was too dangerous to remain in homes."
Munoz said some people at the center thought about going across town to the Superdome to try to get evacuated from there, but police on the streets wouldn't let people leave the area. (Watch the video report on FEMA's scaled-back evacuation plans -- 2:34)
Muñoz estimated there were thousands of people at the center. She told Boix she and her family moved to an upper floor of the center because of what they regarded as aggressive tension on the lower floor.
Muñoz said she has been in frequent contact with the Spanish Embassy in Washington but that U.S. authorities are not permitting embassy personnel to enter New Orleans.
Muñoz, 35, is an MP from Barcelona for Spain's Socialist Party.
>>> Oh, come now. You can't be that dense. The point is that the MSM was reporting on and was well aware of what was transpiring down there. I gave you the other link from the Times-Picayune. Days elapsed before anything was done, which tainted the whole relief effort, however unfairly. As I indicated to you an earlier post, I only did a quick check. The bottom line is that situation at the convention center was known to the media and at least to the city officials. <<<
Come on, now, you can't be that dense. I posted earlier that another Freeper could not find a report by the MSM on Google until Sept 1, and you posted a borderline MSM piece by Scarborough, and a non-MSM piece by the Times-Piscayune, both dated only a day earlier. No offense, but I have never seen Scarborough - not once. I don't even know what he looks like. And I had never heard of the TP until they started bashing Bush and covering the butt of Nagin. Can you give me something a little more mainstream?
For the record, none of this amounts to a hill of beans since supplying the Convention Center was a local responsibility in the early days of the response. The MSM made it a big deal, and many bought into their deception.
But I am still interested in finding out how many MSM reporters (e.g., those who normally report on network and cable nightly news) were actually reporting this on Wednesday, August 31.