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Posted on 01/24/2006 4:13:39 PM PST by Ellesu
LAS VEGAS (AP) - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin chided the media Tuesday for ``embellishments'' and ``things that were stretched'' during the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. But in a conversation with news executives from four hometown TV stations and New Orleans' major newspaper, the mayor said the media generally served his stricken city well. ``There is no road map. There is no manual,'' Nagin said at a National Association of Television Program Executives forum. ``You got it right most of the time.'' He gave no examples of what he considered embellishments. Estimates are that more than 1,200 died in Louisiana and Mississippi in a devastating 2005 hurricane season that left almost 1 million people displaced and more than 375,000 homes and businesses damaged or destroyed along the Gulf Coast. The panelists, including representatives from stations WWL, WDSU, WLOX, and an editor from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, credited the media with doing its best while trying to find fresh water, food, shelter and transportation for its reporters. ``We were living the story,'' said Raymond Schonbak, executive vice president for TV operations at Emmis Communications in New Orleans. ``This, in so many ways, was local television, the local media, really at its finest hour,'' said moderator J. Max Robins, editor of Broadcasting & Cable, a trade magazine. Nagin said that once the national media arrived, local coverage of the Aug. 29 hurricane changed ``from reporting the news to making the news.'' ``Sometimes it was about competition,'' he said.
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Mayor Ray Nagin told Oprah Winfrey: "We have people standing out there, that have been in that ... Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people."
Nagin/Clinton 2008 !!!!!!
Here in Mexico, footage ran repeatedly of undocumented workers complaining that there was no shelter or food for 'them'. The person being interviewed just looked to the ground and shook his head that there was no help for Hispanics. Nagin may have a good point, We heard in Mexico that the good folks started eating rats after 18 hours of not being able to get their Twinkies.
http://www.columbian.com/news/APStories/AP12252005news79720.cfm
On Sept. 1, New Orleans police chief Eddie Compass reported of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center: "We have individuals who are getting raped; we have individuals who are getting beaten."
Also Sept. 1, Acadian Ambulance, charged with removing the sick and injured from the Superdome, suspended flights after a report (circulated in the media, including The Associated Press) that a rescue helicopter had been fired on.
On Sept. 6, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans quoted an Arkansas National Guardsman as saying the convention center’s freezer was stacked with 30 to 40 bodies, including "a 7-year-old with her throat cut."
That same week, Mayor Ray Nagin told Oprah Winfrey: "We have people standing out there, that have been in that ... Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people."
Later examinations by reporters and government officials have found the reports of widespread violence in New Orleans in the week after the storm to be highly exaggerated and, in many cases, flatly false.
Capt. Juan Quinton, a New Orleans police spokesman, said his department had no official reports of rape.
Nagin said he will seek re-election.
``I've got experience that I don't think anyone has, and I'm committed to finishing this work,'' he said. ``I'm trying to change the dialogue to how to save a great American city.''
Nagin said he regretted saying in a Martin Luther King Day speech that the hurricanes were an expression of God's wrath and that New Orleans would once more be a ``chocolate'' city.
``It did shock some people,'' Nagin said of his assertion that God was mad at the United States. ``If I had to do it all over again, the references to God tipped it over and put too much emphasis on it.''
Nagin, who previously apologized for the ``chocolate city'' comment, characterized it Tuesday as the use of vernacular in a conversation with an understanding black audience.
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"I just took something to take the Jones off."
Isn't he the same idiot that said there would be 10,000 dead after Katrina? Just a little stretch there eh Ray.........how soon you forgot how WRONG you were.
"Nagin, who previously apologized for the ``chocolate city'' comment, characterized it Tuesday as the use of in a conversation with an understanding black audience."
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I'll bet ol' Nagin wouldn't like to hear what vernacular word Democrat Robert Byrd would have call Nagin "in a conversation with an understanding KKK audience."
``embellishments'' and ``things that were stretched'' during the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
---Might someone remind him much of the embellishments and stretched truthes came out of HIS mouth on National TV with many, many people witnessing him saying it.
Chocolate Noggin Nagin might be right, except for possibly Marion Barry.
At drowning school buses, perhaps.
And arresting the one high schooler who had the brains to commandeer one and start an evacuation on his own.
How do you embellish chocolate?
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