Posted on 09/25/2005 11:19:46 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
I do believe those of us who said the rumors of rape, murder, and mayhem were greatly exaggerated have been vindicated.
Hysterical media failed again.
All wrong. What was the name of that idiot whose report of the bodies being devoured in NO was cited on FR? Obviously they have eaten the rest of the corpses, and were running out of them with only 6 left by the time FEMA arrived. Good they did not eat FEMA personnel.
I think that remains to be seen. While coverage of the hundreds of dead stacked in the aisles of the Superdome prompted cries of anguish and gnashing of teeth (all directed at the Bush administration) from the mainstream media, details of reality are trickling out quietly with little or no media coverage. I mean, why would they cover it? It makes them look bad and makes the Bush administration seem a little less incompetent (by their measure). So has the American public already turned the channel with echoes of "mass deaths" ringing in their ears, or are they still tuned in and looking at our lying media with new skepticism.
Do you think Tragedy TV is going to do a big retraction and mea culpa?
Yeah, I'm sure they'll spend several prime-time broadcast hours explaining how they reported baseless fabrications and rumors as verified facts, and basked in humongous ratings.
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I couldn't agree with you more.
"or are they still tuned in and looking at our lying media with new skepticism."
I think they're still tuned in and waiting for more information. After all, when you hear from local officials and the media that there have been these atrocities (especially that cannibalism nonsense), you expect to hear about the perpetraters being arrested, more details, etc., and we've heard nothing. I blame the media primarily for promoting this hysteria 24/7.
I do believe those of us who said the rumors of rape, murder, and mayhem were greatly exaggerated have been vindicated.
No you haven't. This is a strawman argument - who, precisely, was claiming there were "hundreds" dead? I remember reading stories of eyewitnesses, and they only mentioned a handful of rapes and murders; this was confirmed weeks ago by interviewed National Guardsmen who reported about six dead bodies in the Superdome. This story merely confirms again what we had been hearing all along; if you were hearing "hundreds dead" in Superdome, you must have been reading different media than I was reading.
I thought they were just trying to make it homelike--like the
Desire Project.
That's a good point. But I wonder if the information they are waiting for will ever receive broad exposure. Certainly the idiotic decisions by Nagin during the New Orleans recovery has cast some new public doubt on his competency. And the success of Texas in getting MILLIONS of people out of harms way makes New Orlean's effort look even more pathetic. But I honestly think it will be up to people like you and I to make sure the rest of America is made very aware of how badly they were misled by a media whose sole intent in Katrina was to make the Whitehouse look bad. The fact that 51% of American voters chose George Bush for a second term in office DESPITE the full mainstream media effort against him is some evidence that the MSM can be overwhelmed by other information sources. And just maybe, the most enduring effect of Katrina will be the final burial of a media that finds no inhibitions against lying to push its political agenda. Let's hope so.
So, reports such as this are lies?
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16483597%5E2862,00.html
I don't think so.
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They're going fast!
LOL! There were a number of 'statements' that a young female had been raped repeatedly. Sometimes the person was 14 years old, sometimes 6 or 7. I even read one account that a kid's torso had been slit open.
Excuse me, but if that had happened, wouldn't the mother or nearest of kin been all over the TV by now? You know Geraldo and Anderson Cooper would have been trying to kill each other for that story.
I figured very little of what was said to have gone on, including statements by so-called eye witnesses looking for their 15 minutes of fame, actually happened.
OMG...there must be Zoombies loose.
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