I noticed on the forum there that people are upset at the lack of coverage. This is what the media did to Mississippi and Alabama. I never did see the first report about Alabama and they practically ignored Mississippi and it was just devastated. It was as bad as any hurricane damage I have ever seen.
Actually, they did show what happened in those states, before the flooding started in NOLA. All day Monday, August 29, the coverage was split between NOLA having dodged a bullet and Mississippi having been hit hard. In fact, the media seemed pleased that while NOLA had been spared, the Republican state of Mississippi had taken the full brunt of Katrina's wrath. As soon as the flooding started in NOLA on Tuesday, though, the media immediately switched to that, and their focus has been there ever since.