[mhking]

One thing that's very maddening to me right now is how the alphabet networks seem to be ignoring this story. If this were San Francisco or Los Angeles or Boston or New York, they'd be all over this wall-to-wall. But because it's "just New Orleans," it doesn't seem to merit the attention it needs.

I'll admit that I'm a bit more involved personally, but I think everyone can see what I am saying here.

[PhiKapMom]

You are 100% correct. Grinds me to no end when it happens in the south, the coverage is nil. Actually when the huge CA fires were happening I went to KTLA from LA because of lack of coverage by the national media.

Article this morning from The Oklahoman sports section that Hollis Price, a former Sooner basketball player who plays in Germany, had all of his bags packed ready to head to Germany. They were in his bedroom in the 9th Ward of New Orleans. Did say that all of his family is safe in Houston - at least the family that raised him -- his grandparents. He said he was looking at the video and could pick out his neighborhood.

[beyond the sea]

One thing that's very maddening to me right now is how the alphabet networks seem to be ignoring this story. If this were San Francisco or Los Angeles or Boston or New York, they'd be all over this wall-to-wall. But because it's "just New Orleans," it doesn't seem to merit the attention it needs.

Very true. If it were N.Y or the other cities you mentioned, SeeBS, NBC, and ABC would cancel most of their idiotic and meaningless programming, and have nearly 24 hour coverage of this terrible event!

[CFC__VRWC]

One thing that's very maddening to me right now is how the alphabet networks seem to be ignoring this story.

I know exactly what you mean, Mike - it's infuriating me to no end. The coverage they are giving it now will only last as long as it takes until they and their fellow Northeast liberals get tired of gloating over pictures of the flooded and ruined homes of those ignorant red-state Bush voters, and then it'll be back to all Cindy Sheehan all the time, at least until they can bring us the leftist demagoguery over the John Roberts confirmation hearings.

The only time then that there will be any mention at all of the Gulf Coast will be when they can find another way to attack President Bush with it. And now, they're whining about how the remnants of Katrina are bringing rain to the Northeast. Oh, the horror! "We were going to grill tofu burgers on the back deck today, and now we're going to get rained out! Why is my FEMA money going to those ignorant yokels down south?"

[TheSpottedOwl]

One thing that's very maddening to me right now is how the alphabet networks seem to be ignoring this story. If this were San Francisco or Los Angeles or Boston or New York, they'd be all over this wall-to-wall. But because it's "just New Orleans," it doesn't seem to merit the attention it needs.

As usual, the thread is going faster than I can read. The military should take advantage of the lack of interest, and shoot to kill. I cannot believe what I am reading. They're trying to loot Children's Hospital? Shoot them, and let the bodies float down the street.

Don't worry, the MSM doesn't speak for most of us. After worrying and praying for the survivors, we also worry about the rich history surrounding the areas that have been destroyed.