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I don't understand your stress over this? What am I missing here? I'd hate to miss out on a good reason to stress out!

Not my stress alone, but also of other FReepers. We are stressed because we could see the beginnings of the MSM ignoring aspects of this event that don't play into their agenda, just as they did in the case of Mississippi and Alabama. After seeing how they've ignored those two hard-hit areas once the flooding in NOLA began, we just don't want to see that kind of selective broadcasting and minimizing of others' pain again.

Bless the reporter who was on just now on FNC on Geraldo's show, pointed to a completely destroyed house in Beaumont, and said of the owners, "Tell THEM that they dodged a bullet."

Yes, MSM, please do. Tell the owners of all destroyed and devastated structures in TX and LA that they dodged a bullet, just because there are other structures that are still intact. And tell everybody in Cameron, Holly Beach, etc., the same thing as well while you're at it. Miserable, foolish, immature, clueless brats, with the attention span of a mosquito and a compassion that is paper-thin.

I can understand some seeing it that way. Even though I know some media report with a spin toward an agenda, I'm not convinced most of their NO hurricane reporting has been the result of an agenda. I think it has been more focused on NO because of circumstances.

New Orleans' location with bodies of water held back by levees makes it unique. Then the break of the levees causing flooding is unique to NO. Most everywhere else will drain off naturally. NO won't drain without pumping the water out.

Nagin also drew more media coverage because of his incompetence and hysterical misbehavior.

I think there are plenty of reasons that NO would naturally get more media coverage. I don't think that is such a bad thing because some of the corruption and incompetence has been exposed and needs to be further exposed by the media. I think the media coverage of NO will lead to Nagin losing any re-election bid and hopefully Blanco, too. It might even push the voters away from the Democrat party. That is a good thing!

What does a community gain from media coverage of disaster?

I can't imagine a lack of media coverage to specific areas causing a lack of disaster aid response. The big charities like Red Cross and Salvation Army are collecting donations for all areas. Salvation Army called me about 2 weeks ago for a donation. Community leaders should be requesting their needed aid and citizens should be letting their needs be known to those who can help them.

I would think if a community was not getting it's needs met in a timely manner the media would jump on that story. Is this happening and we are not hearing about it?