That is interesting considering the major media is based there in New York. This mess is in their back yard and yet they don’t notice it. But like you mentioned in New Orleans, the media types spent an inordinate time on the struggles of the people there and how the fedgov must pump money in to NOLA to get it back up and running.
Guess since it doesn’t affect them, it is not a problem.
Getting there would require at least a subway ride and a ferry ride. You can't expect them to go to that much effort when they can do stories from the AP wire, do you?
You have to understand that this is a working-class area of Staten Island. Their House representative is a Republican, as is the borough president. Nanny Bloomberg and the elitist blue-staters at the NYTimes couldn’t care less about these people. I feel bad for these people, because these aren’t the “you get what you deserve for voting Democrat” types. On the contrary - the looting and squatting is probably being done by Obama voters.
Major media types live uptown(upper west side-new money) or out on the Long Island. Some live in northern Jersey. None live on Staten Island. That is where the blue collar working class folks live. No self respecting rich liberal would be caught dead there.
Staten Island was for years was where they dumped the garbage from Manhattan. It is one big landfill.