How The Watchdogs of Democracy Fed On The Frenzy Of New Orleans

The Post Chronicle ^ | 10\06\05 | John David Powell

[RepublicNewbie]

It is heartening to read and hear the collective "mea culpa" from some of the nation's news media regarding the inaccurate reporting of rape, pillage, and murder in New Orleans in the days immediately following Hurricane Katrina. The encouraging part of this sorry incident is that a great national outrage did not precede the cleansing confession.

[RepublicNewbie]

This is a good read from today's Post Chronicle

[McClintock]

"Mea culpa"?

From the national media?
In what parallel universe?

[yoe]

Having friends in the afflicted areas helps getting to the actual facts. 95% of the time, what we witness on the tube is for our entertainment - New Orleans did flood, homes were wiped out in three states etc. but we did not see for instance, the trucks with $100,000.00 (+) of ice lost or the hundreds of volunteers working with and for survivors of Katrina and Rita, just some reporter hanging in the wind and rain then the aftermath with days old shots. Cell phones and old friends on the ground are the best reporters of all.

[coldoc]

Here is the answer to "why" do a lot of foreigners despise the U.S. How do they get their "facts"? It is from our anti-US Media of course! The Media is the greatest cause of anti-americanism, NOT our government IMHO.

[IronJack]

The encouraging part of this sorry incident is that a great national outrage did not precede the cleansing confession.

That is hardly encouraging. Such wholesale abandonment of the truth should have had Americans storming the media Bastille. However, we're so used to distortion that we shrugged it off.

Perhaps a "great national outrage" will FOLLOW this cleansing confession, and once again, Americans will demand media that are responsible enough to report honestly instead of emotively.