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All you see is stuff about NOLA. I don't get that.

The reporters are all hanging out together in dry sections of New Orleans hoping to get more pictures of looters or shots of black people yelling "racism".

It's amazing. This is the biggest natural disaster to ever hit the U.S. Many thousands are likely dead. The death toll is probably at least triple that of 9/11. It's a huge national tragedy. The devastated region covers an area the size of the U.K. All we see are pictures of looters in the French Quarter and people holed up in the Superdome. That's certainly part of the story but there's a huge story out there that the news media is just glossing over.

The reporters are all hanging out together in dry sections of New Orleans hoping to get more pictures of looters or shots of black people yelling "racism".

It is hard to figure out why they're slanting the story a particular way. One would think they would be doing more to put a white face on the disaster and to provide more coverage in Mississippi since they think we're all so racist. Making the coverage 'whiter' would seem the most likely way to make people mad at the government and therefore Bush. So why aren't they?

In the case of CNN, I think they're pandering to their large overseas audience by trying to show America as backward and racist. That would play well in many parts of Asia and certainly in Europe. Also in Blue America. I just don't see the same payoff for Fox News or the mainstream TV networks who have a lot of affiliates in those areas.