Posted on 08/27/2006 1:18:19 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
Since the media has planned an orgy of finger pointed for the anniversary of Katrina, let's make sure they get a finger in the eye they so richly deserve for their performance. Here's a few I recall, and I'm sure there are more:
Photo captions had white survivors foraging for supplies, while black people were captioned as looting. Helicopters were being fired at, which led to a stand down till it became clear that it was untrue. All those lives lost during that interval are due to media neglagence and the blood of those victims is on the media's hands. Please feel free to forward the results to local or national talk radio so their sorry reporting is not white washed. The media told us of a little girl who had been rapoed and then her throat slit in the Superdome.
It seems that these Pulitzer champions in N.O. were doing no better than racing to publish the latest whispered rumors. That kind or 'reporting' is why the media has lost almost all respect.
Food and water in stores that are even minimally flooded is usually a total loss/write-off due to contamination by possibly being splashed by water. Most health departments will not allow it to be sold. Even canned goods and bottled water since they may have germs on the outside. So, it is essentially trash that may be picked up by anyone. If you break into a store that is NOT flooded, it is looting.
The story I recall was that there was a jail break and the prisoners had taken over a hospital/retirement home with weapons looted from a local pawn shop.
Oh, the best has to be the poverty pimp who reported that after only a few days people had resorted to CANNIBALISM. That was a good one!
Echo Chamber in the Superdome
A Louisiana National Guardsman explains how he dealt with false rumors being piped into Ground Zero of Hurricane Katrina
http://www.reason.com/links/links100405.shtml
I agree. The hysteria has made the recovery worse because people believed the lies. The majority of people were simply trying to survive.
Well, they sure haven't wasted any time handing out the awards for journalistic excellence to themselves...
A. Broussard started telling his story
And cried when the tale got real gory.
Russert, barely awake,
Was taken in by this fake
.... Yet, Tim STILL won't admit that he's sorry.
Aaron Broussard and Tim Russert: The Saga Continues (Lyin, Cryin & Caught!)
Russert could not pass up another opportunity to tar and feather the president.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Katrina Misses New Orleans,
Heavily Damages Mississippi
By Joseph B. Treaster and Kate Zernike
NEW ORLEANS
Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast with devastating force at daybreak Monday, sparing New Orleans the catastrophic hit that had been feared but inundating parts of the city and heaping damage on neighboring Mississippi where it tossed boats, ripped away scores of roof tops and left many of the major coastal roadways impassable.
Bump for the truth.
Col. Thomas Beron, the National Guard commander of Task Force Orleans, arrived at the Superdome on Aug. 29 and took command of 400 soldiers. He told PM that when the Dome's main power failed around 5 am, "it became a hot, humid, miserable place. There was some pushing, people were irritable. There was one attempted rape that the New Orleans police stopped."You mean everyone watching TV didn't know that the National Guard was in the Superdome with those people, with food and water?
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Nagin is certainly NO Rudy Giuliani.
Nagin is only steadfast when he is defending himself. Like the time, shortly after Katrina, that he was encouraging people to return to New Orleans, even though a new storm, Rita, was forming out at sea.
~~Happy Days are Here Again~~
"Happy Days are here again,"
Said New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin.
"Yes, the water's down,
Come back into town.
Happy days are here again."
A storm named Rita's coming strong
Nagin fears the levees won't last long
He'll repeat his hymn
To folks he once made swim
"Don't blame me. I'm never wrong."
That was the greatest moment in the entire Katrina coverage. Hysterical!!!
"I guarantee that video tape has been destroyed by now."
It may be destroyed, but many of us saw it.
I was streaming WWL and watched that interview.
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