It is going to get MUCH uglier and the media will report it less and less because they want to paint a ROSY pic of everything being sunshine and unicorns under Obama’s control of FEMA and other agencies vs Bush-Katrina.
The current environment of the Internet, twitter, etc., will make it less likely that looting and violence will go underreported. The flash mob phenomenon has come to public awareness through alternative media. The audience for the MSM has been dwindling for over 20 years. Even conservative talk radio is on a declining curve in the last few years. During the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, there were numerous smaller scale riots in other cities, which you only heard about if you talked to police officers. The local media did not cover them. Similar outbreaks would receive widespread coverage in alternative media; local MSM and talk radio blackouts would be less successful now.