[satchmodog9]

they still lie

[SteveMcKing]

What's to report? It's a hurricane.

If you need more detail, google "hurricanes".

[GeronL]

and now we know that of the deaths recorded so far that the number of whites is higher than their average in the population down there while the number of blacks who died -so far counted- is lower than their representation in that area.

hhhmmmmm

[beyond the sea]

How Bad Was Media's Reporting on Katrina?

At least as bad as Beggin' Nagin and the non-use of all the buses.

[writer33]

This is no longer free speech. This is tantamount to criminal activiy.

I say, "Book 'em, Danno."

[Redbob]

How about Parish Presidents who lie?

Broussard, I think his name is...

[PhiKapMom]

I remember getting clobbered on here when I said that Shepherd Smith was not on that bridge all the time as he had on different clothes and was clean shaven. Those people also were not without water as they actually showed them getting water but Smith kept pushing the same story when they could have walked for help. And Anderson Cooper was worse.

When are the reporters on the scene going to apologize to everyone that watched those phoney broadcasts? I am not holding my breath!

[beyond the sea]

Bush-bashing, of course, came to the fore, with the typical mainstream media view voiced well by former New York Times executive editor Howell Raines: "The churchgoing cultural populism of George Bush" means that "the poor drown in their attics."

God, that's sick. No wonder the N.Y. Times has become but a rancid bag of accumulated excrement.

[BJungNan]

Ted Kopple was responsible for the delayed response. He reported, irresponsibly, that New Orleans had dodged the bullet just 12 hours after Katrina had passed. Then the levys broke.

He did not go back on the air for 24 hours.

Say he is not responsible? The news to relief workers that night was limited to what they got on Nightline.

Blame Ted!

[Richard Kimball]

It was as bad as this:

[martin_fierro]

[greasepaint]

Why is nobody asking,

why did the Orleans Levee District,
thru omission, decide that the 17th St and London Avenue
canals were not to have protective floodgates?

[The_Media_never_lie]

We should remember the reporters who lied about Katrina. Heraldo, for one. There was a Fox News reporter who hyped the racial aspect, but I cannot remember his name.

[CajunConservative]

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[Kozak]

They also slimed the nation around the world. I have European relatives who still tisk tisk me about how the US is racist and let poor blacks drown and starve.

[WasDougsLamb]

"Hundreds of armed gang members killing and raping people" inside the Dome -- never happened. "Thirty or 40 bodies" stored in a Convention Center freezer -- not one. Rampaging "armed mobs" -- none. "Bands of rapists, going block to block" -- never happened. Geraldo Rivera's "scene of terror, chaos, confusion, anarchy, violence, rapes, murders, dead babies" -- well, that's Geraldo Rivera.

---Ray Nagin was also on TV on Oprah and various news casts lying his ass off too.

[Gordongekko909]

Al Gore begs to disagree.

"In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there was - at least for a short time - a quality of vividness and clarity of focus in our public discourse that reminded some Americans - including some journalists - that vividness and clarity used to be more common in the way we talk with one another about the problems and choices that we face. But then, like a passing summer storm, the moment faded."

But that's Al Gore. He still thinks he won the election in 2000.