If you consider everything, what was really going on as the media focused on those at the Superdome (where, within the flooded portion of the city they still had the best chance for survival) the really vulnerable - those in flooded out neighborhoods - were being rescued.
The Superdome and the Convention Center were the story because they fit the story line of the networks. Thousands being rescued by boat and helicopter, sight unseen, and supplies avaialable but denied delivery to the Superdome and so the networks had their story - nothing that needed to get done was getting done.
We are living in Orwell's 1984.
General Honore is trying to straighten the press corps out. He was on fire today! Asking them why they didn't rescue a few people when they drove in and out.
The hysterical media writes the scripts for every event and policy in the US.
Sad.