No kidding the media deserve the blame. Why weren't they out helping the people instead of being voyeurs, fat and happy watching them suffer? They were out there like vultures, waiting for a juicy story to put on the news so their ratings would go up.
The media are a product of their viewership. They deliver what the people demand. Many posters on here were just as bad, accepting unconfirmed reports and rumours as facts when it fitted in with their world view.
It was amusing to see the media ask President Bush if he felt he might be in the way. I was sure hoping the President would fire back; "Hell, you're the guys in the way."
Very blount...there should have been bloggers there. MSM failed for the most part, and you can see various holes in every story told by CNN. A team of a dozen bloggers would have told the "missing" policemen story entirely, and cracked the entire episode 3 days after the hurricane. The buses parked downtown....they would have been live on the internet 12 hours prior to the hurricane. The behavior of the mayor...letting tourists stay in town...during the hurricane...would have been played out nation-wide and the guy would have been called a fool by 3rd day after the hurricane. We bloggers have missed various opportunities to right wrongs. Its time to pick up a digital camera, a cellphone, and start reporting real-life events. Count the media out...they have failed...its time to right this boat and start telling truths.
That's what I kept thinking...aren't reporters Americans or just plain people anymore? Why weren't they bringing in water and carting people out...being part of the solution instead of being the problem? It reminded me of that news clip from a bunch of years ago where the camera kept rolling while that guy torched himself...it seems like their careers surpass their sense of humanity more often than not.